Three R's Act
Latest action · Feb 13, 2001 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1273-1311)
Progress
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- IntroducedFeb 13, 2001
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot 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). Declares it to be U.S. policy to: (1) hold States, local educational agencies (LEAs), and schools accountable for increased student academic performance results; and (2) facilitate improved classroom instruction.
Revises and reauthorizes title I: (1) part A, LEA basic program grants (I-A); (2) part B, Even Start; (3) part C, education of migratory children; (4) part D, prevention and intervention programs for youth who are neglected, delinquent, or at-risk of dropping out; (5) provisions for capital expenses; (6) part E, Federal evaluations, demonstrations, and transition projects, including a new comprehensive school reform grants program; and (7) a part F, rural education development initiative.
Revises I-A with respect to: (1) State educational agency (SEA) and LEA reservations of funds; (2) formulas for distributing funds to schools with the highest concentrations of poverty; (3) State and LEA plans; (4) priorities in providing school support and improvement assistance; (5) parental involvement; (6) qualifications of teachers and paraprofessionals in I-A schools; (7) professional development; (8) LEA and Head Start services coordination; (9) reservation, allocation, and use of funds for basic, concentration, and targeted grants; and (10) school-wide programs.
Penalizes States for failing to meet statutory deadlines for demonstrating that they have in place standards, assessments, a system for measuring and monitoring adequate yearly progress (AYP), and a statewide system for holding schools and LEAs accountable for making AYP with specified groups of students.
Requires public school choice to be provided to families of students attending I-A schools deemed to be in need of corrective action.
Requires LEAs to use I-A funds only to provide academic instruction and services directly related to instruction to students in preschool through grade 12 to assist eligible children to improve their academic achievement and to meet State achievement standards.
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make education finance program grants to States.
Revises and renames ESEA title II as Teacher and Principal Quality, Professional Development, and Class Size (currently Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional Development Program), with grants programs for: (1) Teacher and Principal Quality, Professional Development (II-A); and (2) Class Size Reduction (II-B).
Establishes a new ESEA title III, Language Minority Students and Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native Education.
Directs the Secretary to make grants to States, subject to specified requirements, to help limited English proficient (LEP) students become proficient in English.
Repeals the current ESEA title III, Technology for Education, including parts: (1) A, Technology for Education of All Students; (2) B, Star Schools Program; (3) C, Ready-to-Learn Television; (4) D, Telecommunications Demonstration Project for Mathematics; and (5) E, Elementary Mathematics and Science Equipment Program. Eliminates the Foreign Language Assistance Program.
Reauthorizes the Emergency Immigration Education Program and Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native Education.
Establishes a new ESEA title IV, Public School Choice program. Reauthorizes and redesignates certain parts of the current title IV, Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities, under such new title IV.
Reauthorizes appropriations for: (1) Magnet Schools Assistance; and (2) Public Charter Schools.
Requires SEAs to hold assisted charter schools accountable for AYP in improving student performance.
Declares it to be U.S. policy to: (1) support and stimulate improved public school performance through increased public school competition and increased Federal financial assistance; and (2) provide parents with more choices among public school options.
Establishes a new title IV part C, Development of Public School Choice Programs, providing for competitive development grants.
Sets forth a new title IV part D, Report Cards. Requires States to prepare and disseminate annual report cards on all elementary and secondary schools receiving funds under ESEA I-A or II-A.
Reauthorizes and transfers ESEA Impact Aid provisions to a new title V (currently title VIII). Eliminates the current title V, Promoting Equity, including Women's Educational Equity, and Assistance to Address School Dropout Problems.
Establishes a new title VI, High Performance and Quality Education Initiatives grants program (eliminating Innovative Education Program Strategies).
Establishes a new ESEA title VII, Accountability, with sanctions and rewards based on meeting performance objectives.
Directs the Secretary to make awards to States that ensure that all teachers teaching in their public schools are fully qualified or have exceeded certain student performance objectives, for distribution among high-performing LEAs for further distribution among high-performing schools, teachers, and principals.
Repeals the Goals 2000: Educate America Act and the following ESEA titles: (1) V, Promoting Equity; (2) X, Programs of National Significance; (3) XI, Coordinated Services; (4) XII, School Facilities Infrastructure Improvement; and (5) XIII, Support and Assistive Programs to Improve Education.
Cosponsors 10
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Feb 13, 2001.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-FL | Bill Nelson | Original | Feb 13, 2001 |
| D-AR | Blanche L. Lincoln | Original | Feb 13, 2001 |
| D-FL | Bob Graham | Original | Feb 13, 2001 |
| D-CA | Dianne Feinstein | Original | Feb 13, 2001 |
| D-IN | Evan Bayh | Original | Feb 13, 2001 |
| D-WI | Herb Kohl | Original | Feb 13, 2001 |
| D-LA | John B. Breaux | Original | Feb 13, 2001 |
| D-MA | John F. Kerry | Original | Feb 13, 2001 |
| D-LA | Mary L. Landrieu | Original | Feb 13, 2001 |
| D-DE | Thomas R. Carper | Original | Feb 13, 2001 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee | Referred Feb 13, 2001 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 13, 2001Introduced in Senate
- Feb 13, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1271-1273)
- Feb 13, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1273-1311)
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S1271–S1273, S1311–S1314Text printed S1273–S1311 | Bob Graham D-FL, Evan Bayh D-IN, Herb Kohl D-WI, John F. Kerry D-MA, Joseph I. Lieberman I-CT (text), Thomas R. Carper D-DE | Feb 13, 2001 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S1207 | Thomas R. Carper D-DE | Feb 8, 2001 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Hrg. 107-1059 | S. 637, INDIVIDUAL FISHING QUOTA ACT OF 2001144 pages | Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee | May 2, 2001 |
Titles 4
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill 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
- Three R's Act
- Public Education Reinvestment, Reinvention, and Responsibility Act
- Popular Titles
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act Reauthorization bill
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- Academic performance
- Alaska
- Authorization
- Charter schools
- Child abuse
- Class size
- Computer-assisted instruction
- Computers in education
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Delinquency prevention
- Dropout prevention
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Education of disadvantaged children
- Educational accountability
- Educational innovations
- Educational planning
- Educational research
- Educational technology
- Educational television
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary education
- English language
- Families
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to Indians
- Federal aid to rural areas
- Federal aid to territories
- Government Operations and Politics
- Hawaiians
- Head Start programs
- Higher education
- Housing and Community Development
- Immigrant education
- Immigration
- Impact aid
- Indian education
- Indigenous peoples
- Language arts
- Literacy programs
- Magnet schools
- Mathematics
- Migrant education
- Minorities
- Minority education
- Paraprofessional school personnel
- Parent-school relationships
- Rating of teachers
- Reading
- Rural education
- School administrators
- School choice
- School principals
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Scientific education
- Secondary education
- Social Welfare
- Standards
- Teacher education
- Teacher salaries
- Teacher supply and demand
- Teachers
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 13, 2001Introduced in Senate
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