Congress 109 - HR 5106 - To amend the National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2002 to authorize grants for Partnerships for Access to Laboratory Science (PALS).

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Academic performance Authorization Colleges Commerce Community and school Community colleges Congressional reporting requirements Continuing education Curricula Economics and Public Finance Education Education of the disadvantaged Educational accountability Educational planning Elementary and secondary education Engineering Federal aid to education Government Operations and Politics Government publicity Higher education Housing and Community Development Labor and Employment Laboratories Mathematics National Science Foundation Nonprofit organizations Rural education School districts Science, Technology, Communications Scientific education Scientific instruments and apparatus Secondary education Social Welfare Standards Teacher education Technical education

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Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to carry out a program of awarding grants to high-need local educational agencies to establish partnerships for access to laboratory science to improve laboratories and to provide instrumentation as part of a comprehensive program to enhance the quality of mathematics, science, engineering, and technology instruction at the secondary school level.

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May 24, 2006

Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Apr 19, 2006

Referred to the Subcommittee on Research.
Apr 5, 2006

Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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.
Apr 5, 2006

Introduced in House

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