S 669
107th Congress
Senate
Education
Academic performance
Building construction
Charter schools
Community and school
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Education of disadvantaged children
Educational accountability
Educational equalization
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Elementary schools
Families
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
High schools
Income tax
Interest
Empowering Parents Act of 2001
Introduced: March 30, 2001
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Became law
Mar 30, 2001
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Mar 30, 2001
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3218-3220)
Mar 30, 2001
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Empowering Parents Act of 2001 - Enhancing Public Education Through Choice Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to establish Public School Choice Programs. Directs the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to State educational agencies (SEAs) and local educational agencies (LEAs), including those serving the lowest performing schools, to enable them to implement programs of universal public school choice. Gives priority to those SEAs and LEAs that: first, serve the lowest performing schools; second, serve the highest percentage of students in poverty; and third, form partnerships for interdistrict approaches to such programs.
Public Charter Schools Equity Act - Amends ESEA to establish a program for credit enhancement initiatives to promote public charter school facility acquisition, construction, and renovation.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income any interest paid on loans by public charter schools.
Amends ESEA to direct the Secretary to make competitive Grants for Public Charter School Facilities to States for the Federal share of the cost of programs in which the States make per-pupil payments to public charter schools to help finance school facilities.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1