GRAD Act
Latest action · Jun 5, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
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 7, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Graduation Really Achieves Dreams Act or the GRAD Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award a grant to Project GRAD USA, a nonprofit educational organization for improving high school graduation and college attendance and completion 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 25
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 7, 2007 to Dec 12, 2007; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-OH | Deborah Pryce | Original | Feb 7, 2007 |
| D-PA | Chaka Fattah | Feb 28, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Mar 1, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Gene Green | Mar 6, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Ruben Hinojosa | Mar 8, 2007 | |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Mar 9, 2007 | |
| D-KS | Dennis Moore | Mar 12, 2007 | |
| D-OH | Betty Sutton | Mar 15, 2007 | |
| D-FL | Corrine Brown | Mar 20, 2007 | |
| D-GA | John Lewis | Mar 22, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Howard L. Berman | Mar 28, 2007 | |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | May 3, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Phil Hare | Jun 26, 2007 | |
| R-TN | John J. Duncan, Jr. | Jul 18, 2007 | |
| R-AK | Don Young | Jul 27, 2007 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Feb 7, 2007 |
| Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee | Referred Jun 5, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 5, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
- Feb 7, 2007Introduced in House
- Feb 7, 2007Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide for Project GRAD programs, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Graduation Really Achieves Dreams Act
- GRAD Act
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 research
- Educational statistics
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary education
- Families
- Federal aid to education
- Government contractors
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Higher education
- Literacy programs
- 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.
- Feb 7, 2007Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
