Americanah
14-01-2006, 17:12
This Act may be cited as the `Low-Income School Choice Demonstration Act of 2006'.
The purpose of this Act is to determine the effects on students and schools of providing financial assistance to low-income parents to enable such parents to select the public or private schools their children will attend.
(A) receive, disburse, and account for Un funds; and
(B) carry out the activities described in its application under this Act;
the term `evaluating agency' means any academic institution, consortium of professionals, or private organization, with demonstrated experience in conducting evaluations, that is not an agency or instrumentality of the Nations Government;
There are authorized to be appropriated $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2006, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2007 and 2008, to carry out this Act.
a) for any fiscal year, grants to eligible entities to enable such entities to carry out at least 10, but not more than 20, demonstration projects under which low-income parents receive education certificates for the costs of enrolling their eligible children in a choice school .
(1) providing education certificates to low-income parents to enable such parents to pay the tuition, the fees, the allowable costs of transportation, if any, and the costs of complying with section 9(a)(1), if any, for their eligible children to attend a choice school ; and
(2) administration of the demonstration project, which shall not exceed 15 percent of the amount received in the first fiscal year for which the eligible entity provides education certificates under this Act or 10 percent in any subsequent year, including--
(A) seeking the involvement of choice schools in the demonstration project;
(B) providing information about the demonstration project, and the schools involved in the demonstration project, to parents of eligible children;
(C) making determinations of eligibility for participation in the demonstration project for eligible children;
(D) selecting students to participate in the demonstration project;
(E) determining the amount of, and issuing, education certificates;
(F) compiling and maintaining such financial and programmatic records as the Secretary may prescribe; and
(G) collecting such information about the effects of the demonstration project as the evaluating agency may need to conduct the evaluation described in section 11.
(d) SPECIAL RULE- Any school participating in the demonstration program under this Act shall comply with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and not discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin.
(1) IN GENERAL- An eligible child participating in a demonstration project under this Act, who, in the absence of such a demonstration project, would have received services under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 shall be provided such services.
(2) PART B OF THE INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION ACT- Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the requirements of part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
PARENTAL NOTIFICATION.
Each eligible entity receiving a grant under this Act shall provide timely notice of the demonstration project to parents of eligible children residing in the area to be served by the demonstration project. At a minimum, such notice shall--
(1) describe the demonstration project;
(2) describe the eligibility requirements for participation in the demonstration project;
(3) describe the information needed to make a determination of eligibility for participation in the demonstration project for an eligible child;
(4) describe the selection procedures to be used if the number of eligible children seeking to participate in the demonstration project exceeds the number that can be accommodated in the demonstration project;
(5) provide information about each choice school , including information about any admission requirements or criteria for each choice school participating in the demonstration project; and
(6) include the schedule for parents to apply for their eligible children to participate in the demonstration project.
The purpose of this Act is to determine the effects on students and schools of providing financial assistance to low-income parents to enable such parents to select the public or private schools their children will attend.
(A) receive, disburse, and account for Un funds; and
(B) carry out the activities described in its application under this Act;
the term `evaluating agency' means any academic institution, consortium of professionals, or private organization, with demonstrated experience in conducting evaluations, that is not an agency or instrumentality of the Nations Government;
There are authorized to be appropriated $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2006, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2007 and 2008, to carry out this Act.
a) for any fiscal year, grants to eligible entities to enable such entities to carry out at least 10, but not more than 20, demonstration projects under which low-income parents receive education certificates for the costs of enrolling their eligible children in a choice school .
(1) providing education certificates to low-income parents to enable such parents to pay the tuition, the fees, the allowable costs of transportation, if any, and the costs of complying with section 9(a)(1), if any, for their eligible children to attend a choice school ; and
(2) administration of the demonstration project, which shall not exceed 15 percent of the amount received in the first fiscal year for which the eligible entity provides education certificates under this Act or 10 percent in any subsequent year, including--
(A) seeking the involvement of choice schools in the demonstration project;
(B) providing information about the demonstration project, and the schools involved in the demonstration project, to parents of eligible children;
(C) making determinations of eligibility for participation in the demonstration project for eligible children;
(D) selecting students to participate in the demonstration project;
(E) determining the amount of, and issuing, education certificates;
(F) compiling and maintaining such financial and programmatic records as the Secretary may prescribe; and
(G) collecting such information about the effects of the demonstration project as the evaluating agency may need to conduct the evaluation described in section 11.
(d) SPECIAL RULE- Any school participating in the demonstration program under this Act shall comply with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and not discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin.
(1) IN GENERAL- An eligible child participating in a demonstration project under this Act, who, in the absence of such a demonstration project, would have received services under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 shall be provided such services.
(2) PART B OF THE INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION ACT- Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the requirements of part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
PARENTAL NOTIFICATION.
Each eligible entity receiving a grant under this Act shall provide timely notice of the demonstration project to parents of eligible children residing in the area to be served by the demonstration project. At a minimum, such notice shall--
(1) describe the demonstration project;
(2) describe the eligibility requirements for participation in the demonstration project;
(3) describe the information needed to make a determination of eligibility for participation in the demonstration project for an eligible child;
(4) describe the selection procedures to be used if the number of eligible children seeking to participate in the demonstration project exceeds the number that can be accommodated in the demonstration project;
(5) provide information about each choice school , including information about any admission requirements or criteria for each choice school participating in the demonstration project; and
(6) include the schedule for parents to apply for their eligible children to participate in the demonstration project.