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HR 4529 101th Congress House

Save the Children Act

Official title: To establish a program of grants of local educational agencies for purposes of conducting after-school activities designed to promote learning and finishing high school.

Introduced: April 18, 1990 See on congress.gov
Education DropoutsElementary educationFederal aid to educationStudent activities
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Aug 17, 1990
Referred to the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Education.
Apr 18, 1990
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Apr 18, 1990
Introduced in House
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 Latest action August 17, 1990

Referred to the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Education.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Save the Children Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants, to local educational agencies in areas where the dropout rate for high school students is 20 percent or more, to pay 90 percent of costs of programs of daily after-school activities for at-risk students in the fourth through eighth grades.

Authorizes appropriations.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 2
D
Kaptur, Marcy
Ohio · Jul 13, 1990
 D
Pelosi, Nancy
California · Jul 13, 1990
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4529: Save the Children Act. 101st Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/101-HR-4529/
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