Empowering Parents Through Choice Act

A bill 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.

3/28/2007--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

• Sen. Lamar Alexander [R, TN]
• and 5 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. Jim DeMint [R, SC]
  • Sen. John Ensign [R, NV]
  • Sen. Jon Kyl [R, AZ]
  • Sen. Mel Martinez [R, FL]
  • Sen. David Vitter [R, LA]
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Committees

• Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.1014

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Introduced		Voted on by Senate		Voted on by House		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
March 28, 2007

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• Mar 28, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
• Introduced on Mar 28, 2007.

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Related Bills:

• H.R.1486

Related Issue Areas:

• 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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February 01, 2008 www.Falko-Hennig.de

Meyer Bd. 19, S. 1014)]) Vaseline ist einer von zwei möglichen Grundstoffen für Cremes, der andere ist Tierfett. Nichts gegen fette Tiere, aber ich bevorzuge Vaseline, diesen durchsichtigen und aus Erdöl gefertigten Wunderstoff. ...

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