S 604 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Ready to Learn, Ready to Teach Act of 2001

Introduced Mar 23, 2001 Originated Senate Sponsor Thad Cochran R-MS

Latest action · Mar 23, 2001 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2826-2828)

Progress

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IntroducedMar 23, 2001
Passed SenateNot reached
Passed HouseNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Ready to Learn, Ready to Teach Act of 2001 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise title III (Technology for Education) part C as Ready-to-Learn Digital Television. Directs the Secretary of Education to award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to eligible public telecommunications entities to: (1) develop educational programming, and related support materials and services, for preschool and elementary school children; (2) develop programming and digital content designed for nationwide distribution over public television stations' digital broadcasting channels and the Internet, containing Ready-to-Learn-based children's programming and resources for parents and caregivers; and (3) disseminate and distribute such programs to the widest possible appropriate audience by the most appropriate distribution technologies.

Establishes the New Century Program for Distributed Teacher Professional Development. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to a nonprofit telecommunications entity, or partnership of such entities, for a national telecommunications-based program designed to assist elementary school and secondary school teachers in preparing all students in core curriculum areas to achieve State content standards.

Establishes a Digital Education Content Collaborative. Authorizes the Secretary to award competitive matching grants to, or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with, eligible local public television communications entities to develop, produce, and distribute educational and instructional video programming based on State standards and designed for use by kindergarten through grade 12 schools.

Cosponsors 4

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 23, 2001 to Apr 4, 2001; 2 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-MA	Edward M. Kennedy	Original	Mar 23, 2001
R-VA	John Warner	Original	Mar 23, 2001
R-OH	George V. Voinovich		Mar 26, 2001
R-RI	Lincoln Chafee		Apr 4, 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 Mar 23, 2001

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 23, 2001Introduced in Senate
Mar 23, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2825-2826)
Mar 23, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2826-2828)

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 S2825–S2829Text printed S2826–S2828	Edward M. Kennedy D-MA, Thad Cochran R-MS (text)	Mar 23, 2001

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 1365	Ready to Learn, Ready to Teach Act of 2001	Identical bill	Jun 20, 2001

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: A bill to amend title III or the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide for digital education partnerships.
Short Titles as Introduced: Ready to Learn, Ready to Teach Act of 2001

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 23, 2001Introduced in Senate

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