GRAD Act
Latest action · Sep 7, 2004 Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
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.
- IntroducedJul 22, 2004
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Graduation Really Achieves Dreams Act - GRAD Act - Authorizes a grant to Project GRAD USA, a nonprofit educational organization for improving high school graduation and college-going rates for disadvantaged students, to provide technical assistance and support through subgrants to existing and new programs that implement a set of integrated education reform services.
Requires the grantee to select only subgrantees that serve a substantial number or percentage of low-income students. Requires the programs to identify one or more groups of public schools at which services will be provided through a feeder pattern through which elementary and secondary schools channel students having participated in program services into an identified high school. Requires program services to include: (1) research-based programs in reading, mathematics, and classroom management; (2) campus-based social services programs, including increasing family and community involvement in schools; (3) a college access program, including providing college scholarships for students who meet established criteria, increasing student and family college awareness, and assisting students to apply for college financial aid; and (4) other services the grantee identifies as necessary.
Cosponsors 12
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 22, 2004 to Oct 7, 2004, with 5 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-PA | Chaka Fattah | Original | Jul 22, 2004 |
| R-OH | Deborah Pryce | Original | Jul 22, 2004 |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Original | Jul 22, 2004 |
| D-TX | Gene Green | Original | Jul 22, 2004 |
| D-CA | Howard L. Berman | Original | Jul 22, 2004 |
| D-TX | Chris Bell | Oct 7, 2004 | |
| R-TN | John J. Duncan, Jr. | Oct 7, 2004 | |
| D-CA | Juanita Millender-McDonald | Oct 7, 2004 | |
| D-NY | Major R. Owens | Oct 7, 2004 | |
| D-TX | Ruben Hinojosa | Oct 7, 2004 | |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Oct 7, 2004 | |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Oct 7, 2004 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 7, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
- Jul 22, 2004Introduced in House
- Jul 22, 2004Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- Academic performance
- Community and school
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Dropouts
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Educational accountability
- Educational statistics
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary education
- Families
- Federal aid to education
- Government contractors
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Higher education
- Mathematics
- Nonprofit organizations
- Parent-school relationships
- Public schools
- Reading
- Scholarships
- Secondary education
- Social Welfare
- Student aid
- Subcontractors
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 22, 2004Introduced in House
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