ED 1.0 Act
Latest action · Feb 26, 2007 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2231)
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 15, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
ED 1.0 Act - Establishes a pilot program requiring the Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to award six-year grants to four minority-serving educational institutions, enabling them to develop digital and wireless networks for online programs of study within the institutions.
Gives grant priority to institutions serving counties: (1) that meet specified criteria of economic depression; (2) less than 18% of whose residents have a higher education; and (3) at least half of whose residents are minorities.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 26, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2231)
- Feb 15, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Feb 15, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR 2/26/2007 S2231-2232)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- Alaska
- Black colleges
- Computer networks
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Depressed areas
- Distance education
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Educational technology
- Federal aid to education
- Hawaiians
- Higher education
- Hispanic Americans
- Indian education
- Indigenous peoples
- Minorities
- Minority education
- Native Americans
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Wireless communication
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 15, 2007Introduced in Senate
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