To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to States for assistance in hiring additional school-based mental health and student service providers.
Latest action · Mar 24, 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.
- IntroducedFeb 2, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a program to assist States and local educational agencies (LEAs) to recruit, train, and hire additional school-based mental health and student service providers, including additional school counselors, psychologists, and social workers (in order to reduce the student-to-counselor ratios nationally, in elementary and secondary schools, to an average of one school counselor for every 250 students, one psychologist for every 1,000 students, and one social worker for every 800 students, as recommended in a report by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences relating to schools and health).
Directs the Secretary of Education, after reserving certain funds for schools in outlying areas and schools run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to make program allotments to States according to a specified formula. Requires States to allocate funds from Federal and State shares of program costs to LEAs according to specified formulas.
Cosponsors 58
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 15, 2005 to Jun 14, 2006.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MD | Elijah E. Cummings | Feb 15, 2005 | |
| D-CA | George Miller | Feb 15, 2005 | |
| D-WA | Jim McDermott | Feb 15, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Major R. Owens | Feb 15, 2005 | |
| D-NM | Tom Udall | Feb 17, 2005 | |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Mar 2, 2005 | |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Mar 2, 2005 | |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Mar 2, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Diane E. Watson | Mar 2, 2005 | |
| D-FL | Robert Wexler | Mar 2, 2005 | |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Mar 10, 2005 | |
| D-RI | Patrick J. Kennedy | Mar 10, 2005 | |
| D-ME | Thomas H. Allen | Mar 10, 2005 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Mar 14, 2005 | |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Apr 5, 2005 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 24, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
- Feb 2, 2005Introduced in House
- Feb 2, 2005Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- Child health
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Educational counseling
- Educational statistics
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary education
- Families
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to Indians
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Health
- Indian education
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Licenses
- Mental health services
- Minorities
- Native Americans
- Parent-school relationships
- Problem children
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapy
- Recruiting of employees
- School discipline
- School health programs
- School personnel
- Secondary education
- Social Welfare
- Social work
- Youth violence
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