A bill to provide for local family information centers, and for other purposes.
Latest action · Mar 1, 2001 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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.
- IntroducedMar 1, 2001
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Revises ESEA title I (Helping Disadvantaged Students Meet High Standards) part E (Federal Evaluations, Demonstrations, and Transition Projects) to authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to, and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with, local nonprofit parent organizations to support local family information centers that help ensure that parents of students in schools assisted under ESEA title I part A (Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies) have the training, information, and support they need to be able to participate effectively in helping their children to meet challenging State standards.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) make at least two awards of assistance under this Act to a local nonprofit parent organization in each State, if the applications are of sufficient quality; and (2) select such organizations so as to ensure provision of the most effective assistance to low-income parents of students in schools assisted under part A that are located in high poverty rural and urban areas in the State, with particular emphasis on rural and urban geographic areas with high school dropout rates, high percentages of limited English proficient students, or geographic areas with schools identified for school improvement or corrective action.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
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 Mar 1, 2001 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 1, 2001Introduced in Senate
- Mar 1, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1785)
- Mar 1, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
In the Congressional Record 1
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 S1785 | Paul D. Wellstone D-MN | Mar 1, 2001 |
Titles 1
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to provide for local family information centers, and for other purposes.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- Academic performance
- Charter schools
- Curricula
- Disabled
- Dropout prevention
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Education of disabled students
- Education of disadvantaged children
- Educational accountability
- Educational planning
- Educational research
- Educational statistics
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary education
- English language
- Families
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to higher education
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Higher education
- Housing and Community Development
- Information services
- Magnet schools
- Nonprofit organizations
- Parent-school relationships
- Rural education
- School administrators
- School choice
- School planning
- Secondary education
- Social Welfare
- Special education
- Standards
- Teachers
- Urban affairs
- Urban education
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 1, 2001Introduced in Senate
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