Quality Education for All Act
Latest action · May 9, 2005 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.
- IntroducedApr 19, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Quality Education for All Act - Extends authorizations of appropriations under: (1) the Head Start Act (HSA); and (2) the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (CCDBGA).
Revises HSA provisions for: (1) Indian and migrant and seasonal programs; (2) expanded access to Early Head Start and Head Start; (3) part-day to full-day programs; (4) school readiness standards; (5) staff training, development, and salaries; and (6) tribal college or university partnership.
Revises CCDBGA requirements for staff training and child care quality improvement activities.
Directs the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to rural local educational agencies for purchasing new school buses.
Expresses the sense of the Senate regarding: (1) fully funding the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act by 2011; (2) funding for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA); and (3) increasing the maximum Pell Grant under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA).
Revises ESEA requirements for: (1) public school choice, supplemental educational services, and teacher quality; (2) adequate yearly progress determinations; (3) technical assistance; (4) assessment and accountability; and (5) prohibiting discrimination.
Revises HEA to provide for: (1) extending and increasing authorizations of appropriations for TRIO and GEARUP programs; (2) no reduction of student aid eligibility based on updates to tax tables; (3) demonstration grants to help low-income students enroll in summer courses to complete their college degrees; and (4) tuition-free college for mathematics, science, and special education teachers, through additional amounts of student loan forgiveness.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) expand the deduction for higher education expenses; (2) establish a credit for interest on higher education loans; and (3) make Hope and Lifetime Learning credits refundable.
Cosponsors 21
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 19, 2005 to Oct 17, 2005, with 20 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Apr 19, 2005 |
| D-MS | Bennie G. Thompson | Original | Apr 19, 2005 |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Original | Apr 19, 2005 |
| D-MN | Collin C. Peterson | Original | Apr 19, 2005 |
| D-CA | Dennis A. Cardoza | Original | Apr 19, 2005 |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Original | Apr 19, 2005 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Apr 19, 2005 |
| D-CA | Ellen O. Tauscher | Original | Apr 19, 2005 |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | Original | Apr 19, 2005 |
| D-NJ | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Original | Apr 19, 2005 |
| D-TN | Harold E. Ford Jr. | Original | Apr 19, 2005 |
| D-CA | Howard L. Berman | Original | Apr 19, 2005 |
| D-SC | James E. Clyburn | Original | Apr 19, 2005 |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Original | Apr 19, 2005 |
| D-GA | John Lewis | Original | Apr 19, 2005 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 9, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
- May 9, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
- Apr 19, 2005Introduced in House
- Apr 19, 2005Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 15 | Quality Education for All Act | Identical bill | Jan 26, 2005 |
| S 848 | Educational Reform Act of 2005 | Related bill | Apr 20, 2005 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- Academic performance
- Administrative procedure
- Authorization
- Block grants
- Building construction
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- College costs
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Construction costs
- Curricula
- Day care
- Department of Education
- Disabled
- Discrimination
- Discrimination in education
- Distance education
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Educational accountability
- Educational facilities
- Educational statistics
- Educational tests
- Elementary and secondary education
- English language
- Families
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to Indians
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Higher education
- Housing and Community Development
- Income tax
- Indian education
- Interest
- Internet
- Language arts
- Law
- Licenses
- Literacy programs
- Maintenance and repair
- Mathematics
- Migrant education
- Minorities
- Paraprofessional school personnel
- Parent-school relationships
- Preschool education
- Reading
- Rural education
- Scholarships
- School administration
- School buses
- School choice
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Scientific education
- Social Welfare
- Special education
- State taxation
- Student loan funds
- Tax credits
- Tax deductions
- Tax refunds
- Taxation
- Teacher education
- Teachers
- Transportation and Public Works
- Web sites
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