Summary of Amendments Submitted to the Rules Committee on H.R. 1,
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
(in alphabetical order)
May 16, 2001 (9:00 p.m.)
Akin #119 Adds that the testing required in Section 1111(b)(4) be a test of objective knowledge, based on measurable, verifiable and widely accepted professional testing and assessment standards, and shall not assess the personal opinions, attitudes, or beliefs of the student being tested. LATE
Allen/Moore #64 Provides full funding in FY 02 and every year thereafter for special education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Andrews #46 Prohibits cigarette vending machines and the illegal possession or use of drugs or alcohol on school grounds or at any school-sponsored event.
Andrews/Maloney (NY)/Saxton/Horn #47 Authorizes $2 million for FY 02 and such sums as may be necessary for the next four fiscal years in grants to schools to promote awareness of the Holocaust and hate crimes.
Armey/Boehner/DeLay #114 Authorizes private school choice for students who have attended low performing schools for 3 years; private school choice as a local use of funds under the Innovative education grants under subpart 1 of part A of Title IV; private school choice for students attending unsafe schools or for students who have been victims of crime; and authorizes grants for up to 5 public and private school choice research demonstration projects.
Armey/Boehner/DeLay #107 Authorizes private school choice for students who have attended low performing schools for 3 years; private school choice as a local use of funds under the Innovative education grants under subpart 1 of part A of Title IV; and private school choice for students attending unsafe schools or for students who have been victims of crime.
Armey/DeLay/Watts/Lipinski #112 Authorizes up to 5 school choice research demonstration projects involving public and private schools to demonstrate the effectiveness of school choice in improving the academic achievement of disadvantaged students.
Baca #16 Increases the authorization level of the Migrant Education Program from $420 million to $500 million for FY 2002.
Barrett #33 Extends the grant period for current 21st Century Community Learning Center (CLC) grantees by two years (from three to five years). Phases out grantee eligibility for total funding by 25% in year four and 50% in year five.
Bass #118 Revises the funding structure for Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) from discretionary to mandatory funding with the purpose of reaching the "so-called" 40% funding level by FY 07. LATE
Berkley #50 Allows states with high growth the opportunity to gain equitable federal funding for their students.
Berkley #51 Establishes an office in the Department of Education and provides grants for a national program to prevent student dropouts and to bring a national focus to the challenge of student dropout prevention.
Blagojevich #87 Amends the ESEA to authorize grants to states for the construction, repair, renovation, and modernization of public school facilities.
Blagojevich #88 Seeks to alleviate the problems with shortages of Head Start teachers by encouraging college graduates to work as Head Start teachers by offering to forgive up to $5,000 of their total student loans.
Boehner #113 Manager's Amendment. Makes various technical and conforming changes, including several clarifications.
Brady (TX) #20 Ensures teachers have the power to maintain order and discipline in the classroom and discourages frivolous, harassing lawsuits against educators and school districts that take reasonable actions to maintain order and discipline.
Brown (OH) #97 Reduces class size through the use of fully qualified teachers; assists in hiring and training 100,000 new teachers; and provides funds for construction.
Capps #98 Allows funding under Title IV to be used for CPR training in schools.
Condit/Waxman #116 Provides that, for an 18-month period, electric power generators could charge not more than their cost-of-service, plus a reasonable profit, for electricity used by schools served by the Western Systems Coordinating Council.
Cox #147 Provides that the total of all funding increases in the bill in the first year will not exceed an 11.5% increase over fiscal year 2001. Authorizes further increases in aggregate funding of 14% (representing 3.5% annually) for all subsequent years.
Crowley #120 Authorizes multi-year funding for the Physical Education for Progress (PEP) Act: $30 million for FY02; $70 million for FY03; and $100 million for FY04-06. LATE
DeMint #145 Allows 7 state educational agencies (SEAs) and 25 local educational agencies (LEAs) to participate in the Straight A's program; allows states to use their Title I accountability system to demonstrate achievement gains; provides that Title I targeting requirements remain in effect within state and school districts; limits uses of funds to uses authorized by programs consolidated as part of the performance agreement; requires the states and school districts to exceed adequate yearly progress by a statistically significant amount; provides that states and school districts are subject to administrative sanctions for failure to perform. LATE
Doggett #65 Authorizes the Secretary of Education to continue identifying and recognizing exemplary schools and programs, including Blue Ribbon Schools.
Dooley #45 The Dooley amendment requires State report cards to include information that compares the actual achievement levels of all students against the State’s annual numerical objectives and to include a “clear and concise” description of the State’s accountability system, including a description of the criteria used by the State to evaluate school performance and to determine whether a school enters school improvement, corrective action or reconstitution.
Duncan #24 Establishes a National Advisory Commission on Alternative Routes to Teacher Certification that will review the existing programs in the states and make recommendations about what constitutes a successful program.
Duncan #25 Permits local educational authorities under this section of the bill to use a percentage of the grant to pay for bonuses for the teachers who prepared the grant.
Duncan #26 Establishes a program under the ESEA for the federal government to help the states create and improve programs for alternative routes to teacher certification and licensing.
Dunn/Frost #62 Allows local educational agencies to spend more of their federal funds to hire School Resource Officers.
Edwards #34 Prohibits funds from going to sectarian religious organizations. WITHDRAWN
Ehlers #8 Requires states to assess in science by the 2007-08 school year.
Ehlers #61 Requires states to assess in science by the 2007-08 school year and provides a limited exemption.
Etheridge #134 Authorizes an additional $500 million per year for FY2002-2006 for low-performing schools to raise student achievement. Funds may be used for class size reduction, extended learning time, teacher training, statewide turnaround teams, staff recruitment and retention, teacher mentoring, student loan forgiveness, and teacher/parenting/community partnerships. Calls for measuring and evaluating progress and providing assistance to achieve a standard of continual student improvement.
Fattah #36 Ensures that funds in Title I are compensatory by shifting the comparability provisions from LEAs to the state level. Focuses on school-by-school compliance and eliminates the reference to grade-by-grade compliance.
Fattah #37 Requires that when student performance indicators are calculated or reported, per pupil expenditure indicators be calculated and reported as well. This amendment only changes sections of the bill that lay out what might be considered "primary" requirements.
Ferguson/Simmons/Pence Grucci/Graves/Platts/ Kennedy (MN)/Kennedy (RI) #104 Represents the first two years of a six-year full funding initiative. Increases funding for IDEA by annual increments of $2.5 billion until the full 40% share of funding is reached in FY 07, thereby providing an additional $120 billion for IDEA over 10 years in advance appropriations. Provides LEA with funding flexibility if the state certifies that the LEA is meeting the requirements of the law.
Ferguson/Pence/Simmons Grucci/Graves/Hart/Platts/ Kennedy (MN)/Kennedy (RI) #115 Represents the first year of a six-year full funding initiative. Increases funding for IDEA by annual increments of $2.5 billion until the full 40% share of funding is reached in FY07, thereby providing an additional $120 billion for IDEA over 10 years, the first 2 of which are in advance appropriations.
Flake #48 Requires a state or local education agency that receives funds under certain provisions of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to provide such funds, to the extent practicable, to any state-accredited public elementary or secondary school that provides education services to homeless children. Provides parents/guardians with the right to choose such schools. WITHDRAWN
Ford #89 Authorizes school construction funds for LEAs that have made improvements in teacher quality and student achievement.
Ford #90 Re-authorizes the Cultural Partnerships for At-Risk Youth demonstration program.
Gallegly #132 Provides formula grants to states to support gifted and talented programs and services to complement the Jacob Javits research and demonstration program.
Gibbons #78 Authorizes $200 million to be allocated to states with high rates of growth in Title I children.
Graham/Tiahrt #92 "Parental Freedom of Information" amendment which guarantees parents the right to access the curriculum to which their children are exposed. Requires informed written consent prior to any student being required to undergo non-emergency medical, psychological or psychiatric examination, testing or treatment while at school. Further clarifies that no student should be required to take any survey, analysis or evaluation that reveals personal information or seeks responses on material inappropriate for children.
Graves #67 Allows school personnel to discipline IDEA students in the same manner (including suspend or expel) in which they would discipline a child without a disability for: (1) carrying or possessing a weapon to school; (2) possessing, using or selling illegal drugs at school; and (3) committing aggravated assault or battery at school.
Graves #68 Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make direct awards to Local Educational Agencies (LEA) to support programs or activities that the LEA deems appropriate for students in K-12.
Graves #69 Expresses the Sense of Congress that the Department of Education, states, and local educational agencies work together to ensure that at least 95 percent of all funds appropriated for elementary and secondary education programs administered by the Department of Education is spent directly to improve the academic achievement of children in classrooms.
Hart #82 Prohibits funds from going to educational agencies which distribute or provide the morning-after pill to school children on school property.
Hill #66 Expands Section 401 to include the creation of smaller learning communities among the possible uses of local innovative education program funds.
Hilleary #101 Prohibits the use of federal funds by any state or local educational agency or school that discriminates against the Boy Scouts of America in providing equal access to school premises or facilities.
Hoeffel #63 Clarifies that localities can spend Title V, Part B funding to provide leave time to teachers so they can attend technology training classes.
Hoekstra #40 Increases the 50 percent transferability cap for local educational agencies to 75 percent upon approval from the state.
Hoekstra #43 Strikes language in the bill that limits the ability of schools identified as in need of improvement or schools in corrective action to transfer money between formula grant programs.
Hoekstra #44 Requires the Secretary of Education to issue a report to Congress on the susceptibility of ESEA programs to waste, fraud and abuse and any actions the Secretary is taking to prevent waste, fraud and abuse or improve financial management at the Department of Education.
Hoekstra/Frank #41 Strikes language requiring annual state assessments in reading and math for grades 3-8 and retains current law for state assessments, requiring that states measure students in all subjects that the state has developed standards.
Hoekstra/Frank #42 Makes the requirements for state assessments and the use of the National Assessment for Education Progress or alternative test inapplicable unless the amount appropriated for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is sufficient to meet the 40 percent per pupil expenditure for each state.
Holt #21 Amends Title I to allow for annual assessments and testing in science as well as reading and math.
Holt #22 Creates a new program designed to improve the recruitment and professional development of math and science teachers.
Isakson #105 2nd Degree Amendment to Democratic school construction amendment. Allows school districts receiving funds under Title IV, Part A, Innovative Programs, to use these funds if they choose for certain repairs or renovations to public school facilities.
Jackson-Lee #136 Adds to Section 1001 Findings language linking the disparity in funding among school districts and states in K-12 education funding to a continued disparity in the education of disadvantaged youths.
Jackson-Lee #137 Adds to Section 111, Part B, "Student Reading Skills Improvement Grants," the requirement that children in federally funded early learning programs be tested for the following knowledge skills: print, book, phonological awareness, phonics, and writing.
Jackson-Lee #138 Adds to Title V, Part A, "Safe Schools for the 21st Century," language stating that the purpose of the title is to also reduce the exposure of children to various chemical health risks at school. Also requires testing for harmful contaminates at school grounds to all K-12 educational facilities built before 1978.
Jackson-Lee #139 Requires the Secretary of Education to conduct a survey within 18 months of enactment of children attending public schools to determine their knowledge of guns in their environment.
Jackson-Lee #140 Adds to Title V, "Safe Schools for the 21st Century," language stating that the purpose of this title is to include mental health services.
Jackson-Lee #141 Adds to Title IV, "Promoting Informed Parental Choice and Innovative Programs," the further purpose of indicating that the digital divide is real and must be aggressively addressed by local, state and national public-private cooperation; and requests that the Secretary of Education produce a report on efforts by schools serving disadvantaged children to achieve connectivity to the Internet through the use of wireless computing technology.
Jackson-Lee #143 Includes in Title III, Part A, "Education of Limited English Proficient Children," the further purpose of indicating that a child with a speech impediment or delayed speech problem should be included under the provisions of this title regardless of the child's first language.
Kennedy (RI) #122 Enhances the Early Reading First initiative and promotes school readiness by supporting the emotional and social development of young children though the Foundations for Learning program. Authorizes $250 million for the first year. LATE
Kind/Hooley #96 Increases funding over 10 years for special education services, pursuant to IDEA, such that the federal government will pay 40% of the average per pupil as authorized by law.
Kirk #4 Sense of Congress that Sections 8002 (Federal Property) and 8003 (Federally Connected Children) of the Impact Aid Program should be fully funded.
Kucinich #17 Creates a clearinghouse for entrepreneurship education.
Larson #76 Amends Section 5221 by directing the Secretary of Education to conduct a study, with subsequent yearly updates, that identifies the following: the current status of high-speed, large bandwidth capacity access to all public elementary and secondary schools and libraries in the U.S.; how high-speed, large bandwidth capacity access to the Internet to such schools and libraries can be effectively utilized within each school and library; the effect that specific or regional circumstances may have on the ability of such institutions to acquire high-speed, large bandwidth capacity access to achieve universal connectivity as an effective tool in the education process; and include various options and recommendations for the entities responsible for elementary and secondary education to address the challenges and issues identified in the report.
Lee #7 Creates a formula grant program to give grants to Local Educational Authorities to hire additional mental health school support personnel– counselors, social workers and psychologists.
Meek #77 Amends the Osborne Mentoring Program so that both adults and qualified, trained and motivated high school students can be mentors.
Menendez #79 Creates a new title in the bill directing the Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Attorney General, to develop a model violence prevention program that will be made available to local education agencies. Directs the Secretary of Education to establish and maintain a national clearinghouse to provide technical assistance to local education agencies regarding alternative violence prevention programs.
Menendez #80 Creates a new title in the bill directing the Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Attorney General, to develop a model violence prevention program that will be made available to local education agencies. Directs the Secretary of Education to establish and maintain a national clearinghouse to provide technical assistance to local education agencies regarding alternative violence prevention programs. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to local education agencies to hire school counselors and authorizes an appropriation of $400 million for the grant program.
Millender-McDonald/Mink #125 Provides grants to states to fund local educational agencies to provide services to disadvantaged students in the areas of math and science, English as a Second Language, and learning disabilities. LATE
Miller, Gary #9 Strikes Section 5231 - Ready to Learn Television.
Miller, Gary/Tiberi/Rehberg #106 Authorizes $9.7 billion in FY02 for part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and increases the authorization by $2 billion each year through FY20, and such sums as may be necessary in order to fulfill the 40% obligation in subsequent fiscal years.
Miller, George #35 Requires a parent's written consent before a student can participate in commercial marketing and research that involves the collection of personal information about the student.
Miller, George #38 Limits the liability of teachers when lawsuits are brought against them for disciplinary actions that are within the scope of their educational responsibilities. Allows students and parents to seek appropriate recourse for abusive disciplinary actions.
Mink #126 Authorizes $200 million in FY02 and such sums as necessary for FY03-06 to establish a grant program to states or LEAs to pay teachers one-half of their salary for enrollment in a one-semester or one-year course of study for professional development. The state or LEA would pay the other half of the teacher's salary.
Mink #127 Adds to the purposes in Section 5401 that the purpose of the grants is to assist in hiring 100,000 school-based resource personnel by reducing counselor-to-student ratios to 1:250; changes the authorization to $2.8 billion for FY02 from such sums as may be necessary and retains such sums authorization for FY03-06; and expands staff eligible for funding to include mental health counselors and family therapists and includes pupil support personnel as eligible for training grants.
Mink #128 Expands current-law provisions to help eliminate bias and discrimination in schools by supporting professional development to help teachers identify and eliminate bias and sexual harassment.
Mink #129 Requires mentoring for teachers with 3 years or less experience in low-performing schools.
Mink #130 Strikes Section 602 of the bill, thereby retaining current-law provisions in Impact Aid regarding Learning Opportunity Threshold (LOT) payments.
Moore #49 Creates a loan forgiveness program for elementary and secondary school teachers who: teach in a low-income school; teach as a special education teacher; or teach in a designated teacher shortage area as defined by the State Department of Education.
Moran (KS) #91 Releases the state from certain federal assessment requirements if the state testing program is approved by the Secretary of Education and the state requires local educational agencies to conduct local assessments for school accreditation purposes.
Morella #123 Provides that a student's option to transfer to another public school shall be provided by the local educational agency unless prohibited by state or local law, which includes school board-approved local educational agency policy. LATE
Morella/Gilman #117 Provides grants to train early childhood educators in all areas of child development and learning, including ways to help children with behavior problems or that are victims of abuse.
Nadler/Pomeroy #131 Allows local educational agencies to provide incentives, including bonus payments, to recognized educators who achieve National Education Technology Standards or information technology certification that is directly related to the curriculum or content area in which the teacher provides instruction.
Nethercutt #19 Reauthorizes the Star Schools Program, a distance learning network which provides live classroom instruction through the use of interactive television and the Internet across school district, state and regional boundaries.
Norwood/Barr #108 Authorizes school personnel to discipline a student with a disability who has a weapon at a school in the same manner as they would discipline a non-disabled student who has committed the same offense, including suspension or expulsion. A disabled child who is disciplined under this amendment would be able to assert a defense that the possession was unintentional or innocent.
Norwood/Barr/Graves #109 Authorizes school personnel to discipline a student with a disability who has a weapon; knowingly possesses or uses illegal drugs or sells or solicits the sale of a controlled substance; or commits aggravated assault or battery at a school in the same manner as they would discipline a non-disabled student who has committed the same offense, including suspension or expulsion. A disabled child who is disciplined under this amendment would be able to assert a defense that the possession of a weapon, or possession or use of illegal drugs, or sale or solicitation of a controlled substance, was unintentional or innocent.
Norwood/Barr #110 Authorizes school personnel to discipline a student with a disability who commits aggravated assault or battery at a school in the same manner as they would discipline a non-disabled student who has committed the same offense, including suspension or expulsion.
Norwood/Barr #111 Authorizes school personnel to discipline a student with a disability who knowingly possesses or uses illegal drugs or sells or solicits the sale of a controlled substance at a school in the same manner as they would discipline a non-disabled student who has committed the same offense, including suspension or expulsion. A disabled child who is disciplined under this amendment would be able to assert a defense that the possession or use of illegal drugs, or sale or solicitation of a controlled substance, was unintentional or innocent.
Owens #29 Adds language to report cards that was originally part of the Opportunity to Learn Standards under Goals 2000. Adds a section that examines the school infrastructure, curriculum guidelines and teacher competency.
Owens #30 Provides more than $20 billion for school renovation, repair and construction.
Paul #32 Removes the language mandating that states conduct annual "assessments" and repeals the authorization of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
Payne #27 Seeks to change the poverty threshold for schoolwide programs under Title I of ESEA from 40% to 50%.
Petri #23 2nd Degree Amendment to Rep. George Miller Amendment #35. Directs state and local education agencies to establish guidelines, treated as public information, with respect to the conditions under which private information about students is obtained and used. Provides for parental notification of the adoption of such guidelines, as well as any subsequent changes.
Petri #75 Directs states and local educational agencies to establish guidelines, treated as public information, with respect to the conditions under which private information about students is obtained and used.
Putnam #39 Requires states to publish their state content and student achievement standards as a part of their annual state report cards.
Putnam #144 Makes improving education in rural areas a key priority in determining progress for eligibility for the Achievement in Education Awards and sanctions for failure to make progress. LATE
Roemer #71 Removes the option of using an alternative test instead of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Roemer #72 Provides $125 million in competitive grants to help communities with low-performing schools implement programs of intra-district or inter-district public school choice; expands current charter schools credit enhancement demonstration to provide $225 million yearly in grants to leverage private financing for facilities and start-up costs; and expands the Public Charter Schools program to provide $175 million in matching grants.
Roemer #73 Increases the authorization for Title II (Preparing, Training, and Recruiting Quality Teachers) from $3.6 billion to $4.1 billion.
Roemer #74 Increases the authorization for Title V, Part B (Enhancing Education Through Technology) from $1.0 billion to $1.2 billion.
Rogers (MI) #13 Authorizes the local use of funds to provide for additional reading assistance by remedial reading teachers and tutors to K-3 students who are experiencing reading difficulties.
Rogers (MI) #14 Authorizes grant authority to be offered to eligible entities that could demonstrate innovative credit enhancement initiatives to assist charter schools with the cost of acquiring, constructing, and renovating facilities.
Rogers (MI) #15 Authorizes the Secretary of Education to work with state administrators to promote and advocate the use and establishment of state-sponsored college savings plans during a student's elementary years.
Schaffer #95 Ensures federal funding for development, implementation, execution, and maintenance of testing and accountability should a state have to provide 55% or more of the funds necessary for such provisions. If the state provides 55% or more, the state does not have to comply with the testing and accountability provisions.
Scott #54 Ensures the religious organizations who participate in after-school or safe schools programs under Title V would not discriminate against employees who are paid with public funds on the basis of religion. Prohibits these organizations from sectarian worship, proselytization, or sectarian instruction as part of the program.
Scott #55 Requires states to reserve half of their activities fund to provide subgrants to local school districts for the purpose of providing professional development and leadership training opportunities for principals.
Scott #56 Ensures a student's option to transfer to another school would be available unless prohibited by state or local law, which includes school board policy.
Scott #57 Ensures that the provision of the bill requiring school choice would not override local school district plans with respect to mandatory or voluntary desegregation plans.
Scott #58 Ensures that all public schools, including charter schools, be held to the same standard of having all teachers in Title I schools to be licensed or certified. Strikes charter school exemption from the base text.
Scott #59 Prohibits the use of funds authorized for the development of mandated 3rd through 8th grade annual tests to develop tests that would be the only criterion used to make "High Stakes" decisions about pupil tracking, advancement, and graduation. Requires tests to meet professional methodological standards.
Scott #60 Requires the Secretary of Education to contract with the National Institutes of Health for a national study for the psychological and health consequences of "High Stakes" testing for students.
Solis #70 Amends Title V to include the following as an authorized activity for community learning centers: providing after school services for limited English proficient students that emphasize language and life skills.
Stearns #99 Sets up a commission to study the feasibility of letting Americans subtract up to $1,500 per child from their federal income tax liability for non-public school tuition.
Stearns #100 Requires that 10% of the state grant money under Title II that is used for administrative purposes could be used for hiring additional teaching assistants.
Stearns #102 Requires that the state educational agencies make known, in the form of a report to the Department of Education, those schools that are in the process of school improvement and indicate the specific category of status: school improvement, corrective action or reconstruction.
Stearns #103 Expresses the Sense of Congress which says that Congress should honor our commitments and fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Sweeney #31 Requires Local Educational Agencies to educate, as a condition of funding, students in grades three through twelve on the federal law providing for the loss of federal student aid due to a student's illegal drug-related conviction, and other federal and state laws regarding violent crimes or the illegal use of drugs.
Tancredo #10 Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute. Strikes all of the text and inserts the text of H.R. 1 as introduced.
Tancredo #11 Amends Title I and Title III of the bill to require affirmative, opt-in parental consent before Limited English Proficient (LEP) children are placed in LEP programs or classes.
Tauscher #52 Establishes a State Infrastructure Banks (SIBs) pilot program for school and library construction.
Tiahrt #93 Increases funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to 40% of all funding available.
Tiahrt #94 Provides special education funding flexibility for states and LEAs by allowing states to transfer discretionary funds from ESEA to IDEA programs.
Tiberi/Castle #146 Allows 100 school districts in 50 states to enter into performance agreements with the Secretary. Under these agreements, school districts would be able to consolidate programs and be relieved of the requirements of those programs.
Tierney #53 Requires annual appropriations for Title I to equal or exceed $600 million before any new testing provisions can be implemented.
Traficant #1 Expresses the Sense of the Congress that all construction related activities resulting from funding authorized under the Act shall use American-made steel and that all purchasing shall comply with the requirements of the Buy America Act.
Traficant #2 Requires the Secretary of Education to give preference for those schools which qualify for funding under this act to schools with uniforms as the standard dress code.
Traficant #3 Limits the states that can receive financial assistance under this act to only those that have in effect the following law: if a student of that school system is convicted of possessing a firearm at school, that student shall lose his/her license to operate a motor vehicle under the age of 21.
Udall (CO) #81 Establishes a program in the Department of Education to enable our school districts to build school buildings taking advantage of advanced energy conservation technologies, daylighting, and renewable energy.
Underwood #142 Establishes federal policy for insular areas; provides $12 million in general assistance for insular areas; and requires review on biennial basis of insular area programs. LATE
Velázquez #83 Amends Part B of Title V to require the Secretary of Education to collect data using scientifically-based random sampling methods to determine the student/computer ratios of at least 10,000 schools from geographically diverse regions of the country.
Velázquez #84 Amends Title V to make it easier for entities in disadvantaged communities to successfully apply for 21st century community learning grants in states that exercise the option to require a match by allowing them to meet the matching requirement with in-kind contributions.
Velázquez #85 Amends the parental involvement section of Title I to require that local educational agencies that receive Title I funds hire parent liaisons to help parents, teachers, and other school officials comply with the requirements of the section which are intended to increase parental involvement.
Velázquez #86 Amends Title V to ensure that students in low-income and minority communities have equal access to education technology.
Vitter/Sessions #12 Requires those secondary education institutions that accept federal funds to allow military recruiters to visit the school.
Wamp/Etheridge #133 Increases the authorization for character education from $25 million to $50 million for fiscal year 2002 and such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2003 through 2006.
Weldon (FL) #135 Strikes provisions from the supplemental services program for children in failing schools to ensure that while the providers of these services must have the same goal of helping students meet state academic achievement standards, the supplemental service providers can have greater flexibility in how to meet these goals.
Wicker #18 Expands the public school options for students trapped in failing schools.
Woolsey #5 Adds a new Title VIII, reinstating the coordinated services program currently in Title XI of ESEA, but repealed in H.R. 1. The amendment also authorizes grants to create child opportunity zone centers.
Woolsey #6 Adds a new program to Title IV authorizing grants to school districts for activities that give girls and their parents the encouragement and information they need to study and pursue degrees and careers in science, mathematics, engineering and technology.
Wu #28 Maintains a separate stream of funding for the Class-Size Reduction Program.
Young (AK) #124 Allows for a school district that has no tax base and whose boundaries are the same as federal property upon which it resides to be considered eligible for the "heavily impacted program." LATE
* Summaries derived from information submitted by the amendment sponsors.
