LOCAL Level Act
Latest action · Jan 16, 2015 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Progress
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- IntroducedJan 16, 2015
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Learning Opportunities Created At Local Level Act or the LOCAL Level Act
Expresses the sense of Congress that state and local prerogatives over elementary and secondary education need to be preserved.
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to prohibit any federal officer or employee from directly or indirectly, through grants, contracts, or other cooperative agreements under the ESEA:
- mandating, directing, or controlling a state's, local educational agency's (LEA's), or school's specific instructional content, academic standards, assessments, curriculum, or program of instruction;
- incentivizing such an entity's adoption of any specific instructional content, academic standards, assessments, curriculum, or program of instruction;
- mandating a state or any subdivision thereof to spend any funds or incur any costs not paid for under the ESEA; or
- conditioning the availability of financial support on a state's, LEA's, or school's adoption of any specific instructional content, academic standards, assessments, curriculum, or program of instruction, even if such conditions are specified under any other Act.
Prohibits any funds provided to the Department of Education under the ESEA from being used by the Department directly or indirectly, through grants, contracts, or other cooperative agreements, to endorse, approve, develop, require, or sanction any elementary or secondary school curriculum.
Prohibits conditioning any state's receipt of ESEA assistance on the approval or certification of its academic standards by the federal government.
Includes in the prohibition against the use of ESEA funds on federally sponsored testing and testing materials such use on any assessment or testing materials aligned to the Common Core State Standards or any other academic standards common to a significant number of states. Prohibits the use of Race to the Top funds, provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, on such aligned assessment or testing materials.
Cosponsors 9
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 16, 2015 to Apr 22, 2015, with 3 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-IA | Chuck Grassley | Original | Jan 16, 2015 |
| R-OK | James M. Inhofe | Original | Jan 16, 2015 |
| R-OH | Rob Portman | Original | Jan 16, 2015 |
| R-WV | Shelley Moore Capito | Jan 21, 2015 | |
| R-KY | Rand Paul | Feb 4, 2015 | |
| R-FL | Marco Rubio | Feb 5, 2015 | |
| R-IA | Joni Ernst | Mar 2, 2015 | |
| R-LA | Bill Cassidy | Mar 24, 2015 | |
| R-NH | Kelly Ayotte | Apr 22, 2015 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 16, 2015Introduced in Senate
- Jan 16, 2015Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 16, 2015Introduced in Senate
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