Empowering Parents Through Choice Act

To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide parental choice for those students that attend schools that are in need of improvement and have been identified for restructuring.

3/13/2007--Introduced.
Empowering Parents Through Choice Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require local educational agencies (LEAs) to provide students with Promise Scholarships, covering the cost of attending private elementary or secondary schools chosen by their parents, if their schools are subject to restructuring for failing to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) pursuant to state academic performance standards. Requires:
(1) each scholarship to remain in effect until the student completes the grade that is the last grade taught at the school from which the student transfers; and
(2) such students to be assessed in reading, language arts, mathematics, and science at the same grade levels as public school students to determine if the schools and LEAs are making AYP. Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states, LEAs, or nonprofit organizations to support projects that enable students from low-income families that have been attending schools subject to restructuring, as well as their siblings, to receive:
(1) Opportunity Scholarships to attend the private elementary or secondary school of their parents' choice or a public school of their parents' choice outside their school district, if allowed by state law; and
(2) intensive, sustained supplemental educational services on an annual basis. Requires grantees to:
(1) continue each scholarship until the student completes the grade that is the last grade taught at the school from which the student transferred, or the student's family income exceeds a specified poverty level higher than the level required for initial eligibility; and
(2) fund the scholarships before funding supplemental educational services.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Howard McKeon [R, CA-25]
• and 12 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. John Boehner [R, OH-8]
  • Rep. David Davis [R, TN-1]
  • Rep. Vernon Ehlers [R, MI-3]
  • Rep. Luis Fortuno [R, PR-0]
  • Rep. Virginia Foxx [R, NC-5]
  • Rep. Samuel Johnson [R, TX-3]
  • Rep. John Kline [R, MN-2]
  • Rep. Kenny Marchant [R, TX-24]
  • Rep. Christopher Shays [R, CT-4]
  • Rep. Mark Souder [R, IN-3]
  • Rep. Timothy Walberg [R, MI-7]
  • Rep. Addison Wilson [R, SC-2]
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Committees

• House Education and Labor
• 1 more
  • House Education and Labor
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Amendments

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Amendments to H.R.1486

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
March 13, 2007

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• Jun 27, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
• Mar 13, 2007: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
• Introduced on Mar 13, 2007.

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• S.1014

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• Elementary and secondary education
• Civil liberties
• Civil rights
• Communications
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• Compensatory education
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Education
• Education of the disadvantaged
• Educational accountability
• Educational tests
• Elementary education
• Federal aid to education
• Language arts
• Mathematics
• Nondiscrimination provisions
• Nonprofit organizations
• Private schools
• Reading
• Religion
• Religious liberty
• Scholarships
• School choice
• School districts
• Science policy
• Scientific education
• Secondary education
• Social services
• Welfare

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Empowering Parents Through Choice Act (HR 1486).[26] This legislation would provide low-income students trapped in schools labeled as "restructuring" or "failing" under NCLB with a scholarship to attend a private school of choice. ...

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June 04, 2007 Lawmakers Pay Serious Attention to Improving Supplemental ...

Empowering Parents through Choice Act (HR 1486/S. 1014) • No Child Left Behind Reform Act (NCLBRA) (HR 2087/S. 1194) • Improving Supplemental Education by Ensuring Parental Awareness Act (HR 2203). Commonalities among these bills ...

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May 30, 2007 RSC Policy Brief: School Choice and No Child Left Behind

Buck McKeon, ranking member on the Education Committee, recently introduced the Empowering Parents Through Choice Act (HR 1486), which would implement some of the President’s initiatives outlined above, including the Promise ...

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