HR 236 · 108th Congress 2003–2005, ended

Student Bill of Rights

Introduced Jan 8, 2003 Originated House Sponsor Chaka Fattah D-PA

Fact sheet

Latest action · Feb 21, 2003 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.

  1. IntroducedJan 8, 2003
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Student Bill of Rights - Directs the Secretary of Education to make annual determinations as to whether each State's public school system provides all its students with educational resources to succeed academically and in life. Requires such education to enable students to: (1) acquire knowledge and skills necessary for responsible citizenship; (2) meet challenging academic achievement standards; and (3) compete and succeed in a global economy.

Requires each system to do so through: (1) providing specified fundamentals of educational opportunity to students at each public elementary and secondary school; (2) providing educational services in school districts that receive funds for disadvantaged students that are, taken as a whole, at least comparable to educational services provided in school districts not receiving such funds; and (3) complying with any final Federal or State court order in any matter concerning the adequacy or equitableness of the system.

Requires withholding of specified portions of its Federal funding for administrative expenses if a system: (1) fails to meet a yearly interim goal; (2) does not remedy, after two school years, a failure to provide comparable educational services to schools that receive funds for disadvantaged children; or (3) does not comply with a court order.

Allows students or parents aggrieved by violations of this Act to bring civil actions for enforcement in Federal district courts.

Directs the Commissioner of Education Statistics to study the effects of educational disparities on economic growth and on national defense.

Cosponsors 188

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 8, 2003 to Oct 8, 2004, with 49 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-PRAnibal Acevedo-VilaOriginalJan 8, 2003
D-ALArtur DavisOriginalJan 8, 2003
D-CABarbara LeeOriginalJan 8, 2003
D-MSBennie G. ThompsonOriginalJan 8, 2003
D-MABill DelahuntOriginalJan 8, 2003
D-CABob FilnerOriginalJan 8, 2003
D-ILBobby L. RushOriginalJan 8, 2003
D-NYCarolyn McCarthyOriginalJan 8, 2003
D-NYCharles B. RangelOriginalJan 8, 2003
D-FLCorrine BrownOriginalJan 8, 2003
D-ILDanny K. DavisOriginalJan 8, 2003
D-CADiane E. WatsonOriginalJan 8, 2003
D-VIDonna M. ChristensenOriginalJan 8, 2003
D-TXEddie Bernice JohnsonOriginalJan 8, 2003
D-NYEdolphus TownsOriginalJan 8, 2003
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Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Feb 21, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
  2. Jan 8, 2003Introduced in House
  3. Jan 8, 2003Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Subjects

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

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