Education Reform Act
Latest action · Jun 27, 2001 Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedApr 26, 2001
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Revises and renames ESEA title I as Student Performance (currently Helping Disadvantaged Children Meet High Standards), reauthorizing appropriations for specified programs.
Requires the provision of public school choice for families of students attending certain schools deemed to be in need of corrective action.
Establishes a Comprehensive School Reform program and a Rural Education Development Initiative.
Revises and renames ESEA title II as Teacher and Principal Quality, Professional Development, and Class Size.
Establishes a new ESEA title III, Language Minority Students and Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native Education, which combines and revises provisions of current titles VII and IX.
Redesignates, reauthorizes, and revises the current title III as title X, Technology for Education.
Transfers to a new title III subtitle B the Emergency Immigration Education Program.
Establishes a new ESEA title IV, Public School Choice, and authorizes a new public school choice program. Extends the authorization of appropriations for Magnet Schools Assistance and Public Charter Schools.
Sets forth a new title IV part D, Report Cards. Directs the Secretary to make grants to qualifying States to publish report cards for each elementary and secondary school receiving ESEA funding.
Transfers ESEA Impact Aid provisions from title VIII to a new title V, eliminating certain current title V programs.
Establishes a new title VI, High Performance and Quality Education Initiatives for grants to State education agencies to award subgrants to local education agencies for: (1) school improvement; (2) 21st Century Opportunities programs; (3) safe learning environments; and (4) New Economy Technology Schools.
Establishes a new ESEA title VII, Accountability. Requires certain sanctions if performance objectives have not been met by a State receiving grant funds. Directs the Secretary to make awards to States that either ensure that all teachers teaching in their public schools are fully qualified by FY 2003, or for three consecutive years have met or exceeded certain objectives.
Repeals the Goals 2000: Educate America Act.
Technology for Education Act of 2000 (sic) - Redesignates, reauthorizes, and revises the current title III as title X, Technology for Education.
Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 2000 (sic) - Redesignates, reauthorizes and revises the current title IV as title XI, Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities.
Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act of 2000 (sic) - Extends the authorization of appropriations for title XII part B, Gifted and Talented Children programs.
21st Century Community Learning Centers Act - Extends the authorization of appropriations for title XII part H, 21st Century Community Learning Centers.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Apr 26, 2001.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CT | James H. Maloney | Original | Apr 26, 2001 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Apr 26, 2001 |
| Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee | Referred Jun 27, 2001 | |
| Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee | Referred Jun 27, 2001 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 27, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
- Jun 27, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
- Apr 26, 2001Introduced in House
- Apr 26, 2001Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 107-27 | OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF (OCS) OIL AND GAS ISSUES112 pages | Natural Resources Committee | May 14, 2001 |
Titles 6
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, to reauthorize and make improvements to that Act, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Education Reform Act
- Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill
- Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act of 2000
- Technology for Education Act of 2000
- Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 2000
- 21st Century Community Learning Centers Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- Academic performance
- Administrative procedure
- Alaska
- Alcohol and youth
- Arts
- Arts, Culture, Religion
- Authorization
- Bilingual education
- Books
- Career education
- Charter schools
- Civics education
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Class size
- Community and school
- Community centers
- Compensatory education
- Computer software
- Computer-assisted instruction
- Computers in education
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Continuing education
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Crime prevention
- Curricula
- Delinquency prevention
- Democracy
- Department of Education
- Dropout prevention
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse prevention
- Drugs and youth
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Education of disadvantaged children
- Educational accountability
- Educational counseling
- Educational finance
- Educational innovations
- Educational planning
- Educational research
- Educational statistics
- Educational technology
- Educational television
- Educational tests
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary education
- Engineering
- English language
- Ethics
- Families
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to higher education
- Federal aid to Indians
- Federal aid to territories
- Gifted children
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Government statistics
- Hate crimes
- Hawaiians
- Head Start programs
- High school students
- Higher education
- Housing and Community Development
- Illiteracy
- Immigrant education
- Immigration
- Impact aid
- Indian education
- Infrastructure
- Intergovernmental fiscal relations
- Juvenile delinquency
- Juvenile delinquents
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Literacy programs
- Magnet schools
- Mathematics
- Migrant education
- Minorities
- Minority education
- Nonprofit organizations
- Paraprofessional school personnel
- Parent and child
- Parent-school relationships
- Preschool education
- Problem children
- Public schools
- Racial discrimination
- Rating of teachers
- Reading
- Recruiting of employees
- Rural education
- Scholarships
- School administration
- School administrators
- School choice
- School districts
- School principals
- School security
- School violence
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Scientific education
- Secondary education
- Sex discrimination in education
- Social Welfare
- Sports and Recreation
- Standards
- State aid to education
- Student activities
- Teacher education
- Teacher supply and demand
- Teachers
- Teaching
- Teaching materials
- Technical education
- Transportation and Public Works
- Travel costs
- Urban affairs
- Urban education
- White House conferences
- Women
- Women engineers
- Women scientists
- Youth violence
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 26, 2001Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
