Educational Success for Children and Youth Without Homes Act of 2013
Latest action · Apr 25, 2013 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Progress
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- IntroducedApr 25, 2013
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Educational Success for Children and Youth Without Homes Act of 2013 - Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act's program of grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for the education of homeless youth to:
- raise the minimum allotment for each state;
- elaborate on the functions of each state's Office of the Coordinator for Education of Homeless Children and Youths;
- elaborate on required state procedures for resolving disputes regarding the educational placement of homeless youth;
- ensure that homeless youth do not lose credits earned in other schools and are not segregated into separate schools or programs within schools;
- require states, LEAs, and schools to promote success for homeless youth by holding them to the same achievement standards as other students and removing barriers to their full participation in all classes and school activities;
- list student-centered factors to be considered before an LEA places a homeless youth in a school;
- require such schools to immediately enroll homeless youth despite unpaid fees or missed application or enrollment deadlines;
- protect the privacy of information about a homeless youth's living situation;
- require LEAs to coordinate services provided to homeless and disabled youth;
- add to the duties of, and funding available to, LEA liaisons for homeless youth;
- provide for the enrollment of homeless children in early care and education programs;
- require the Secretary of Education to establish or designate a Federal Office of the Coordinator for Education of Homeless Children and Youths;
- authorize the Secretary to award grants or enter into contracts for evaluation, dissemination, and technical assistance activities for educational programs for homeless youth; and
- triple authorized FY2014 appropriations from those authorized for FY2009.
Establishes a separately funded Emergency Disaster Grant program which distributes funds to LEAs directly or through states to increase LEAs' capacity to respond to major disasters that increase their enrollment of homeless youth.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 25, 2013 to Sep 10, 2013, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MN | Al Franken | Original | Apr 25, 2013 |
| D-NY | Kirsten E. Gillibrand | May 21, 2013 | |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Sep 10, 2013 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 25, 2013Introduced in Senate
- Apr 25, 2013Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- Academic performance and assessments
- Child safety and welfare
- Department of Education
- Disaster relief and insurance
- Education
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Education programs funding
- Elementary and secondary education
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Homelessness and emergency shelter
- Preschool education
- Right of privacy
- Special education
- State and local government operations
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 25, 2013Introduced in Senate
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