Fair Share Act of 2008

To provide public charter school options for those students that attend schools that are in need of improvement and have been identified for restructuring and those schools with a graduation rate of less than 60 percent, and for other purposes.

3/14/2008--Introduced.
Pell Grants for Kids Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary, subject to advance appropriations, to award competitive grants to states, public chartering agencies, local educational agencies, or tax-exempt organizations to enhance the capacity of public charter schools to serve additional students, particularly those transferring from schools identified as needing restructuring under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 for failing to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) pursuant to state academic performance standards for five consecutive school years. Limits grant use to providing subgrants to public charter schools, covering the administrative expenses of grantees and subgrantees, and enhancing the availability of credit for such schools. Fair Share Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Benefits) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to treat certain foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies performing services under a contract with the U.S. government as U.S. employers for purposes of Social Security and Medicare employment taxes.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Rahm Emanuel [D, IL-5]
• and 1 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Rodney Alexander [R, LA-5]
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Committees

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

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Amendments to H.R.5647

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March 14, 2008

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• Introduced on Mar 14, 2008.
• Mar 14, 2008: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• Mar 14, 2008: Referred to House Education and Labor
• Mar 14, 2008: Referred to House Ways and Means

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Related Bills:

• H.R.5602
• S.2775

Related Issue Areas:

• Elementary and secondary education
• Academic performance
• Aged
• Budgets
• 33 more
• Building construction
• Business
• Charter schools
• Education
• Education of the disadvantaged
• Educational accountability
• Elementary education
• Federal aid to education
• Federally-assisted loans
• Finance
• Foreign corporations
• Government contractors
• Income tax
• Labor
• Medicare
• Old age, survivors and disability insurance
• Public contracts
• Recruiting of employees
• Revolving funds
• School buildings
• School districts
• Secondary education
• Social security
• Social security taxes
• Student enrollment
• Student transportation
• Subsidiary corporations
• Tax-exempt organizations
• Taxation
• Teacher supply and demand
• Trade
• Transportation
• Welfare

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