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United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1986
Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act to revise provisions relating to the determination of State allotments.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1986
Head Start Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Head Start Act to extend through FY 1989 the authorization of appropriations for Head Start programs. Revises the formula for the minimum funding guarantees for Indian and migrant Head Start programs. Eliminates cost-of-living indexing for Indian and migrant Head Start programs. Eliminates a minimum reservation of funds for training and technical assistance activities. Makes Head Start program employees ineligible for between-term unemployment compensation under the Internal Revenue Code.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1986
Directs the Administrator of General Services to assign specified surplus Government property in Duluth, Minnesota, to the Secretary of Education for conveyance to the University of Minnesota.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1986
Designates November 18, 1986, as National Community Education Day.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1986
Education and Training for American Competitiveness Act - Title I: Education for American Competitiveness - Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title for FY 1987 and each succeeding year. Makes available 80 percent of such funds for subtitle A and 20 percent for subtitle B. Subtitle A: Education and Training to Strengthen the Competitiveness of Domestic Industry - Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary for purposes of this title) to make grants to State educational agencies (SEAs) for programs to improve the education and skills of our current and future workers in those areas that will enhance their productivity and competitiveness. Allots subtitle A funds among States on the basis of relative numbers of unemployed individuals and of adults without high school degrees. Sets forth requirements for submission, contents, and approval of State plans under this subtitle. Encourages States to coordinate services under this subtitle with those provided under the Training for Industrial Competitiveness provisions added by this Act to the Job Training Partnership Act. Allows funds under this subtitle to be used for programs of literacy training, vocational training services, and elementary and secondary education in mathematics, science, or foreign languages. Makes such literacy training available to unemployed or underemployed individuals, displaced workers, illiterate adults, and illiterate out-of-school youth. Make such vocational training services available to: (1) workers who have been or who are about to be adversely affected by foreign competition; (2) unemployed or underemployed individuals, for employment in new, expanding, or export-related industries or businesses; (3) current employees, in order to make their existing industries and business more competitive; and (4) individuals in order to assist their entry into or advancement in high technology occupations or to meet the technological demands of other industries or businesses. Provides that such elementary or secondary level instruction in mathematics, science, or foreign languages be through programs to: (1) meet needs not being met under the Education for Economic Security Act (through activities such as education partnerships with business, industry, and labor, interdisciplinary programs, and after-school and summer advanced or supplementary programs); (2) begin preparation for advanced courses and careers in mathematics, science, engineering, and technology; and (3) develop the specific technological and foreign language skills required by local industries and businesses. Sets forth eligible service providers under this subtitle. Limits administrative costs under this subtitle. Subtitle B: Postsecondary Education Programs to Improve Instruction in Mathematics, Science, and Foreign Languages - Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education for: (1) summer language institutes and science and mathematics workshops; and/or (2) special equipment acquisition and workshops. Provides for competitive selection of grant recipients. Limits the amounts of grant awards. Sets forth grant application requirements. Requires the institution, or consortium of such institutions, to assure that it will obtain at least one-half of the cost of the programs with non-Federal funds. Provides that the grants for summer institutes (either here or abroad) for intensive training in foreign languages and cultures shall be for: (1) secondary and postsecondary school students (with stipends provided); (2) language teachers and faculty (with stipends provided) to improve their language proficiency and pedagogical techniques; and (3) American international business persons, on a cost reimbursement basis, to improve their effectiveness in doing business abroad. Provides that the grants for intensive workshops for preservice and inservice mathematics and science teachers and faculty shall be to demonstrate the most recent developments in science, mathematics, and technology, and their application to improve our economic development, especially in export and foreign trade businesses and industries. Encourages the involvement of State and local governments, labor, business, and industry in planning for such workshops. Provides that the equipment grants shall be for: (1) the purchase of laboratory and other special equipment suitable for use in providing undergraduate classroom instruction in mathematics and/or science; and (2) workshops for secondary and vocational school teachers and postsecondary institution faculty on the use of such equipment. Title II: Training for Industrial Competitiveness - Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title for FY 1987 and succeeding fiscal years, to fund programs added by this Act to the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Allocates such funds as follows: (1) 60 percent for trade-impacted worker assistance programs; (2) 20 percent for joint labor-management training programs; (3) nine percent for demonstration programs (for FY 1987 and 1988 only); (4) ten percent for State job bank systems (for FY 1987 and 1988 only); and (5) one percent for certain studies under this Act. Reallocates such funds after the FY 1987 and 1988 limited purposes are completed. Amends title IV (Federally Administered Programs) of the JTPA to add a new part H: Training for Industrial Competitiveness. Directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary, for purposes of this title) to: (1) provide training and employment assistance to trade-impacted workers; (2) provide financial and technical assistance to labor-management committees; and (3) establish demonstration programs to improve worker adjustment to changing world markets. Sets forth requirements for trade-impacted worker assistance programs. Directs the Secretary to provide, on a competitive basis, financial assistance to eligible public or private nonprofit programs for training and employment assistance to eligible workers in industries that the Secretary determines have been adversely affected by international trade. Allows eligible individuals to be provided with: (1) intensive job search assistance; (2) basic skills training and other educational assistance; (3) job training; (4) job development; (5) training in job skills for which demand exceeds supply; (6) supportive services, including commuting assistance and financial and personal counseling; (7) pre-layoff assistance; and (8) relocation assistance. Authorizes subsistence stipends if the enrolled individual is not currently receiving unemployment compensation or trade readjustment assistance. Requires that such services shall: (1) be in addition to, and coordinated with, those provided under title III (Employment and Training Assistance for Dislocated Workers) of JTPA; and (2) supplement and not supplant any other federally-assisted training assistance or services. Includes specified considerations under criteria for determining if an industry has been adversely affected by international trade. Sets forth requirements for joint labor-management training programs. Directs the Secretary to award, on a competitive basis, grants to labor-management committees to provide not more than one-half of the cost of programs of training, retraining, and education for eligible workers. Sets forth grant eligibility requirements for labor-management committees and program eligibility requirements for workers. Allows committees to use grant funds to provide the following services to eligible workers: (1) early warning adjustment services in the event of mass layoffs or plant closings (including personal and financial counseling, referral to community services, career counseling, job search assistance, job development, retraining, and relocation assistance); (2) aptitude testing and career counseling; (3) on-the-job training; (4) institutional training; (5) tuition assistance; (6) upgrading of skills; and (7) education, including basic skills, literacy training, and more advanced education. Sets forth requirements for cooperative agreements for such committees. Sets forth requirements for demonstration programs. Directs the Secretary, within six months after enactment of this Act, to establish programs to demonstrate the feasibility of providing worker retraining payments to workers who: (1) are or were employed in an industry determined to have been adversely affected by international trade; and (2) meet specified criteria for dislocated workers. Limits such payments to $4,000 each, to enable such workers to purchase their own job search, education, training, and retraining services from certified providers. Sets forth program evaluation requirements. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on such programs. Adds to JTPA new provisions for State job bank systems. Directs the Secretary to make funds from this Act available through the U.S. Employment Service for the development and implementation of computerized job bank systems in each State, for purposes such as: (1) identification of, and referral to, job openings; (2) information on occupational supply and demand; and (3) use by career information, including school counseling, programs. Encourages compatibility of such systems with other systems used in employment and training program administration. Requires special consideration to be given to the advice of State occupational coordinating committees and other users of such systems. Directs the Secretary, within six months after enactment of this Act, to commence a study of the feasibility of providing portability for pensions and health benefits for dislocated workers. Requires such study to also evaluate the benefits of providing early retirement benefits without penalty for older dislocated workers. Requires a report of such study to be submitted to the Congress within 18 months after enactment of this Act. Includes among the data which the Secretary is required to maintain under JTPA data on the mass layoffs or closings that are caused by or substantially related to international trade. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to conduct a study to identify the countries that fail to recognize and enforce, and the foreign producers that fail to comply with, basic labor rights. Requires an annual report of such study to be submitted to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1986
Designates the week of October 5 through October 11, 1986, as National Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1986
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that proposals to assess or increase fees on the credit activities of specified Federal housing and student loan authorities (including the Veterans Administration) should be rejected.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1986
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to exempt from reduction under any sequestration order the Pell grant higher education assistance program under the Higher Education Act of 1965.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1986
Economic Diversification Promotion Act of 1986 - Amends title III (Special Programs) of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act (the Act) to add a new part F: Industry-Education Partnership for Training and Retraining in Defense-Dependent Communities. Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to States to carry out industry-education partnership training programs in defense-dependent communities. Provides that such funds will be used solely for vocational education programs designed to train and retrain workers at defense or defense-related industries or facilities and other workers in defense-dependent communities to allow such workers to find employment in nondefense or defense-related businesses or industries. Requires coordination of part F programs with those under the Job Training Partnership Act and under title II (Basic State Grants for Vocational Education) of the Act. Requires active participation of State vocational education councils in developing part F programs. Requires at least 50 percent of program funds from non-Federal sources, and 50 percent of such non-Federal funds from participating business and industries (through cash or in-kind contributions). Provides that the Federal share of program costs shall be available equally from part F funds and from funds allotted to States under title II of the Act. Provides for State designation of specified funds for program use if an eligible recipient demonstrates that it is incapable of providing its share. Permits grant funds to be used solely for the part F programs already described and for: (1) limited administrative costs; (2) training and retraining of instructional and guidance personnel; (3) curriculum and materials development; and (4) other activities authorized under title III of the Act which may be essential to operating part F programs (including ensuring access of women, minorities, the handicapped, and the economically disadvantaged). Sets forth guidelines for State board approval of part F programs. Authorizes appropriations for part F programs for FY 1987 through 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1986
Amends the Excellence in Education Act to provide that reservations of certain amounts for special school awards dependent on private sector contributions and for research, evaluation, dissemination, and monitoring activities shall only be applicable during fiscal years in which the appropriations for the school excellence awards program under such Act exceed a specified level.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1986
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Counseling, Education, and Services Act of 1986 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants for the establishment of networks of comprehensive outpatient services for individuals who have acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or acquired immune deficiency syndrome-related complex, including: (1) comprehensive ambulatory care services; (2) home health care services; (3) long-term care and hospice services; (4) mental health, counseling, and psychosocial support services; and (5) case management services. Requires each entity applying for such grants to establish a network advisory committee. Directs the Secretary to make grants for the development, establishment, or expansion of programs to: (1) provide education and disseminate information concerning AIDS; and (2) provide counseling to individuals who have tested positively for the presence of antibodies to the human T-cell lymphotrophic virus III. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989. Establishes an Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Research Coordinating Committee within the National Institutes of Health to: (1) advise the Directors of the national research institutes with respect to AIDS research; (2) identify the needs for AIDS research; and (3) make recommendations to the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1986
Student Financial Assistance Technical Corrections Act of 1986 - Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to provide for reimbursement of the administrative costs of supplemental preclaim assistance for default prevention under the guaranteed student loan program.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1986
Centers of Excellence in Civic Education Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) and to individual schools of LEAs for centers of excellence in civic education. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Director of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution (the Director), to establish procedures to identify for such grants each fiscal year between ten and 20 such centers which are administered by LEAs or individual schools and which have exemplary programs designed to develop civic competence and responsibilities. Directs the Secretary to ensure geographical balance in such selection and that at least one-third of the selected LEAs or schools serve high concentrations of low-income, minority, or limited English language proficiency students. Provides that such grants shall be between $25,000 and $75,000. Requires grant recipients to provide specified assurances. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Director, to convene in each fiscal year a conference of representatives of grant recipients and other experts in civic education. Directs the Secretary to disseminate conference information on improvements in civic education programs.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1986
Education of the Handicapped Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Education of the Handicapped Act (the Act) to revise an age category limitation on the percentage of handicapped children who may be counted for purposes of determining a State's allotment. Provides that the age category for such purposes must be the age category which the State actually serves. Allows specified funds to be used for certain administrative costs of monitoring and complaint investigation. Eliminates an exemption from the requirement that all States provide special education services for handicapped children aged three to five in order to be eligible for assistance under the Act. (Gives States whose State laws had qualified them for such exemption two years to comply with this requirement.) Extends through FY 1989 the authorization of appropriations to carry out evaluation provisions under the Act. Establishes a new program for early intervention for handicapped infants from birth through age two. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make grants to States to carry out such program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989 for such program. Sets forth provisions for State allotments and eligibility under the early intervention program. Requires assisted States to have, beginning two years after the enactment of this Act: (1) a comprehensive early childhood plan for services to handicapped children from birth through age five which addresses service delivery to all handicapped infants and includes the transition to school; and (2) a statewide comprehensive system of early intervention services for all handicapped infants from birth through age two. Directs the State Governor to appoint an Early Intervention Council. Sets forth Council responsibilities including annual reports to the Governor and the Secretary on the status of early intervention programs within the State. Directs the Governor to appoint an advisory panel to the Council. Directs the Governor to establish or designate a State agency to administer the early intervention program. Sets forth early intervention program components. Requires the State program to serve all handicapped infants from birth through age two. Requires that each handicapped infant have: (1) a multidisciplinary assessment of individual needs and required services; (2) an individualized program plan including special education, social services, health services, and parent and family support services; and (3) free access to all services described in the plan. Requires individualized programs to be reviewed annually and to include provisions supporting the transition to services under provisions for the education of all handicapped children. Sets forth requirements for State applications for early intervention program assistance. Revises provisions for planning, development, and implementation grants. Provides that nothing under such early intervention program provisions shall be construed to: (1) permit a State to reduce benefits or alter eligibility under Medicaid for handicapped infants; or (2) encourage benefit reduction under other public or private insurance. Specifies physical education as among the services offered by regional resource centers for the handicapped and by programs for deaf-blind children and youth. Authorizes the Secretary to arrange by contract, grant, or cooperative agreement with appropriate entities for early intervention and preschool services for handicapped children, including: (1) programs of experimental early intervention for traditionally underserved handicapped infants and their families; (2) preservice and inservice training in early intervention practices for volunteers, paraprofessionals, and professsionals; and (3) research on the development of handicapped children. Directs the Secretary to make an additional grant to address the needs of native Hawaiian children with handicaps. Reserves specified funds for: (1) training and technical assistance for States preparing to receive or receiving grants under the early intervention program; and (2) research on the development of handicapped children, including studies of the effectiveness of various service delivery approaches and of early intervention programs. Revises provisions for research, innovation, training, and dissemination activities to include references to the needs of native Hawaiian and other native Pacific Basin handicapped children and youth. Adds specifically designed physical education and therapeutic recreation programs to increase the potential of handicapped youths for community participation to those projects which may be assisted by grants or contracts under provisions for secondary education and transitional services for handicapped youth. Requires that such projects be coordinated with other State agencies and provide individual transition plans for students served. Extends through FY 1989 the authorization of appropriations under various provisions for centers and services to meet special needs of the handicapped. Revises provisions for grants for personnel training to direct the Secretary to give priority to applications from States where shortages exist. Revises provisions for grants for parent training and information programs to require that an additional grant be made to a nonprofit agency serving the needs of native Hawaiians. Directs the Secretary to give priority to parent training and information grants which involve new programs. Permits staff personnel of parent training and information programs to assist parents directly in activities under procedural safeguards provisions of the Act. Provides that grants for traineeships shall be made to each State educational agency and shall be for training personnel serving handicapped children and supervisors of such personnel. Includes physical education among the fields for which grants or contracts to improve the recruiting of educational personnel for handicapped children and youth are made. Provides that the national clearinghouse on postsecondary education for the handicapped shall also provide information on transitional services and programs. Extends through FY 1989 the authorization of appropriations for various programs under provisions for training personnel for education of the handicapped. Directs the Secretary to reserve 65 percent of such funds for such training in specified fields. Requires that at least five percent of funds for research, surveys, and demonstraction projects to assist appropriate personnel and other persons in the education of handicapped children and youth be used to address the needs of underserved secondary school-aged handicapped youth. Provides for an additional grant, contract, or cooperative agreement for the development of program models and demonstrations for native Hawaiian handicapped children and youth. Extends through FY 1989 the authorization of appropriations for various programs under provisions for research in education of the handicapped. Revises provisions for instructional media for the handicapped to add references to theater and to educational material and technology. Directs the Secretary to make grants to or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with the National Theater of the Deaf to provide theatrical experiences for specified purposes. Extends through FY 1989 the authorization of appropriations for various programs under provisions for instructional media for the handicapped. Repeals provisions for the National Advisory Committee on Handicapped Children and Youth.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1986
Centers of Excellence in Civic Education Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) and to individual schools of LEAs for centers of excellence in civic education. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Director of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution (the Director), to establish procedures to identify for such grants each fiscal year between ten and 20 such centers which are administered by LEAs or individual schools and which have exemplary programs designed to develop civic competence and responsibilities. Directs the Secretary to ensure geographical balance in such selection and that at least one-third of the selected LEAs or schools serve high concentrations of low-income, minority, or limited English language proficiency students. Provides that such grants shall be between $25,000 and $75,000. Requires grant recipients to provide specified assurances. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Director, to convene in each fiscal year a conference of representatives of grant recipients and other experts in civic education. Directs the Secretary to disseminate conference information on improvements in civic education programs.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to exempt certain programs, projects, and activities of the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Department of Education from reduction under a sequestration order issued by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Bilingual Education Act Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Bilingual Education Act (the Act) to add to the statement of policy the declaration that, regardless of the method of instruction, programs which serve children of limited English proficiency have the equally important goals of developing both academic achievement and English proficiency. Removes a requirement that the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) reserve limited portions of funds under the Act for special alternative instructional programs and related activities. Removes a requirement that the Secretary reserve at least 75 percent of funds under part A (Financial Assistance for Bilingual Education Programs) of the Act for transitional bilingual education programs.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Designates the week beginning April 13, 1986, as National Education for Business Week.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1986
Head Start Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Head Start Act to extend through FY 1989 the authorization of appropriations for Head Start programs. Revises the formula for the minimum funding guarantees for Indian and migrant Head Start programs. Eliminates cost-of-living indexing for Indian and migrant Head Start programs. Eliminates a minimum reservation of funds for training and technical assistance activities. Makes Head Start program employees ineligible for between-term unemployment compensation under the Internal Revenue Code.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1986
Designates November 18, 1986, as National Community Education Day.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1986
Bilingual Education Act Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Bilingual Education Act (the Act) to add to the statement of policy the declaration that, regardless of the method of instruction, programs which serve children of limited English proficiency have the equally important goals of developing both academic achievement and English proficiency. Removes a requirement that the Secretary of Education reserve limited portions of funds under the Act for special alternative instructional programs and related activities. Removes a requirement that the Secretary reserve at least 75 percent of funds under part A (Financial Assistance for Bilingual Education Programs) of the Act for transitional bilingual education programs.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1986
Designates April 20, 1986, as Education Day, U.S.A.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1986
Effective Schools and Even Start Act - Requires each State receiving an allotment under a certain provision of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 after enactment of this Act to use a specified portion of such allotment to: (1) plan for, and review proposed changes in, effective schools programs; (2) implement and support effective schools programs; (3) obtain technical assistance and consultant services with respect to effective schools programs from qualified nonprofit educational organizations; (4) design, develop, and publish educational materials on effective schools programs; (5) develop and implement data collection and analysis systems concerning effective schools programs; (6) promote State and local educational agency awareness of effective schools information; (7) conduct evaluations of effective schools programs; and/or (8) otherwise identify and disseminate information concerning exemplary effective schools programs. Requires the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to provide assistance in order to inform State educational agencies of the requirements of this Act and to help such agencies comply with such requirements. Requires the Secretary to make grants from specified funds appropriated pursuant to the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 and the Adult Education Act to provide a program of adult literacy training which includes involving parents and children together in an effort to enhance the likelihood of educational achievement. Sets forth the elements to be included in such program. Defines an eligible program participant as a parent or child (aged three to seven) from a family: (1) that includes a parent who is eligible for participation in an adult basic education program under the Adult Education Act; and (2) that resides with a child (aged three to seven) in a certain type of school attendance area. Declares that any agency that operates an adult basic education program and serves an area which has an especially high concentration of children from low-income families is eligible to apply for a grant under the Even Start program. Sets forth the requirements for a grant application. Requires that two-thirds of the applications selected for final review shall be from urban areas and one-third shall be from rural areas. Provides for the creation of a review panel to make the final selection of grant recipients. Requires any State educational agency required to use funds for an effective school program to amend its application under a specified section of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 to reflect the activities to be conducted with such funds. Requires such a State educational agency and an Even Start program applicant who has been selected to receive funding to enter into a program agreement with the Secretary. Sets forth the information to be included in such agreements. Requires the Secretary to analyze the effective schools programs conducted pursuant to this Act and report to the Congress on such programs by September 30, 1989. Requires the Secretary to provide for annual evaluations of the effectiveness of Even Start programs in providing specified services. Requires the results of the evaluations to be submitted to the national diffusion network for possible dissemination.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1986
Designates September 1986 as Partnerships in Education Month.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1986
Rescinds certain funds appropriated for FY 1986 for the Agency for International Development for international disaster assistance. Makes supplemental appropriations for FY 1986 for the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education of the Department of Education for impact aid disaster assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1986
Strategic Defense Education Act of 1986 - Title I: Higher Education Programs - Amends title IX (Graduate Programs) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (the Act) to create a new part D program of graduate assistance in areas of national need. Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to academic departments and programs and other academic units of institutions of higher education for graduate fellowships in selected areas of study for graduate students who: (1) demonstrate financial need and academic ability; (2) plan teaching or research careers; and (3) pursue the highest degree available in their area of study. Makes the principal criterion for the allocation of such grant awards the relative quality of the graduate programs in competing applications. Directs the Secretary, consistent with such principal criterion for allocation, to promote an equitable distribution of such awards among geographic areas and among eligible public and private institutions. Directs the Secretary to approve a grant recipient for a three-year period. Limits the amount per fiscal year of such grant to any academic department or program of an institution of higher education to a minimum of $100,000 and a maximum of $500,000. Provides for reallotment of grant funds. Provides for new awards under this Act only to the extent that each previous grant recipient has received the required continued funding. Provides for ratable reductions of amounts required to be awarded to the extent that appropriations are insufficient. Sets forth institutional eligibility provisions. Permits grant applications by any academic department or program of an institution of higher education which offers a program of post-baccalaureate study leading to a graduate degree in an area of national need (as designated through procedures set forth in this Act). Requires a department or program to be in existence for at least four years, in order to be eligible for such a grant. Directs the Secretary, after consulting with specified agencies and organizations, to designate areas of national need. (Lists, as examples of areas which might receive such designation, physical or life sciences, mathematics, engineering, computer science, foreign languages, or area studies.) Directs the Secretary, in making such designations, to take into account the extent to which the interest is compelling and the extent to which other Federal programs support post-baccalaureate study in the area concerned. Sets forth criteria for grant applications, including a requirement of at least 25 percent non-Federal matching funds, for purposes of the fellowship program under this Act. Requires that the institution make such fellowship awards to individuals having financial need who: (1) plan teaching or research careers; (2) plan to pursue the highest possible degree available in their course of study; (3) are from traditionally underrepresented groups undertaking graduate study, as determined by the Secretary; and (4) have compiled excellent academic records in their previous programs of study. Sets forth requirements relating to awards to graduate students. Provides that at least 80 percent of the grant to the academic department or program shall be used for such awards. Limits the period of such award to no longer than five years for any individual. Provides that such fellowships shall consist of payment of tuition and fees and a stipend. Limits the maximum individual annual stipend to $10,000 or the demonstrated level of need, whichever is less. Sets forth other conditions for receipt of such award. Sets forth provisions for assistance to the graduate program. Provides that up to 20 percent of the grant to the institution may be used to conduct activities to improve the quality of the academic program offered at the department, including improvement of library resources and of laboratory and instructional equipment, and support for research projects and academic papers. Prohibits such funds from being used for the general operational overhead of the institution. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991. Amends title VII (Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Academic Facilities) to add new part E provisions for a college research facilities construction loan corporation to be known as the College Construction Loan Insurance Association (the Corporation). Authorizes the Secretary of Education and the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) to participate in such private, for-profit, non-governmental Corporation, which shall guarantee and insure loans to universities for construction, renovation, and acquisition of research facilities. Title II: National Science Foundation Program - Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1987 to the National Science Foundation for Engineering Research Centers. Title III: University Research Initiative - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 to the Department of Defense for the University Research Initiative program. Title IV: Tax Incentives for Research Activities in Areas of National Need - Subtitle A: Credit for Increasing Research Activities in Areas of National Need - Amends the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 to make permanent the tax credit for increasing research activities in areas of national need. Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to modify the definition of qualified research for tax credit purposes. Defines "area of national need" for such purposes. Makes the tax credit for qualified research expenses available to corporations and to certain joint research ventures. Sets forth transition rules. Subtitle B: Promotion of University Research and Scientific Education in Areas of National Need - Amends the IRC to expand the tax credit for university basic research in areas of national need to certain qualified organizations. Allows a tax deduction for certain contributions of scientific and technological property utilized in research in areas of national need. Excludes from gross income certain scholarships, fellowship grants, stipends, and student loan forgiveness for postgraduate students in areas of national need. Subtitle C: Tax-Exempt Bonds and Research Facilities - Sets forth the sense of the Congress regarding the use of tax-exempt bonds to fund research facilities. Declares that the expansion, improvement, and development of research facilities connected with private and public institutions of higher education should be included with other facilities listed under the exceptions to the unified volume limitation for tax-exempt government bonds.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1986
Designates March 21, 1986, as National Energy Education Day.
United States · United States Senate · 26 February 1986
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1986
Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1989 for the Joseph W. Martin Institute for Law and Society at Stonehill College, North Easton, Massachusetts.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1986
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to exempt from reduction under any sequestration order certain student assistance programs, the guaranteed student loan program, and institutional development assistance programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1986
United States-Mexico Border Health Education and Training Act of 1986 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, from amounts allotted to each State, to make grants to and enter into contracts with schools of medicine and osteopathy to establish and operate health education and training center programs along the border with Mexico (in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas). Requires such border center programs to be cooperative programs between such schools and one or more private or public health education centers located along the border. Requires each border center to have an advisory board. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1986
United States - Mexico Border Health Education and Training Act of 1986 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, from amounts allotted to each State, to make grants to and enter into contracts with schools of medicine and osteopathy to establish and operate health education and training center (border center) programs along the border with Mexico (in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas). Requires such border center programs to be cooperative programs between such schools and one or more private or public health education centers located along the border. Requires each border center to have an advisory board. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989.
United States · United States Senate · 11 February 1986
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1986
Drug Abuse Education Act of 1986 - Requires the Secretary of Education to establish a program of grants to States for drug abuse education in elementary and secondary schools. Lists the State and local educational agency uses of such funds. Restricts the amount States may use for administrative costs. Provides for: (1) the allotment of such grant funds to States; (2) State application for such grant funds; (3) allocations to local educational agencies; and (4) local application to State educational agencies. Provides for the equitable participation of children enrolled in private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools in such program. Requires the Secretary to: (1) collect and disseminate program-related information to State and local educational agencies; (2) provide technical assistance; and (3) identify research and development priorities. Authorizes appropriations for such activities. Provides that the use of such grant funds is to supplement and not supplant other Federal funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1986
Amends title V (Teacher Corps and Teacher Training Programs) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to redesignate part F (National Talented Teacher Program) as "Part F-Christa McAuliffe National Talented Teacher Fellowship Program." Renames the fellowships awarded under part F the McAuliffe Fellowships.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1986
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal to Mary Lasker in recognition of her humanitarian contributions in medical research and education, urban beautification, and the fine arts. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1986
Amends the Indian Education Act to authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, specified Hawaiian organizations which primarily serve and benefit Hawaiian natives for the purpose of preparing individuals for teaching or administering special projects and programs designed to meet the special educational needs of Hawaiian natives, providing in-service training for persons teaching in such programs, and providing fellowships to such natives for study in graduate and professional programs at institutions of higher education. Renames the Office of Indian Education (within the Department of Education) as the Office of Native American Education. Redefines "Native American" (for purposes of such Act and specified other education-related Acts) to include any Hawaiian native. Amends the Indian Elementary and Secondary School Assistance Act to authorize the Secretary to make grants to, or to enter into contracts with, local educational agencies which primarily serve the educational needs of Hawaiian natives. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to make technical and conforming amendments. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, organizations which primarily serve Hawaiian natives for the purpose of providing pilot and demonstration programs for improving educational opportunities for such natives. Amends the Adult Education Act to authorize the Secretary to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, organizations primarily serving Hawaiian natives with respect to the improvement of educational opportunities for Hawaiian native adults.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1986
Challenger Dependents Education Benefits Act - Provides educational assistance to dependents of members of space flight crews of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) who die in the performance of their duties, in the same manner and under the same conditions as such assistance is provided to dependents of veterans of the armed forces. Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to administer such benefits. Requires the Administrator of NASA to determine whether a person is eligible for such assistance. Requires such educational assistance benefits to be paid for by Veterans Administration funds, but requires the Administrator of NASA to reimburse the Veterans Administration for the cost of all such benefits. Makes this Act effective with respect to deaths or disabilities of persons occurring on or after January 28, 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1986
Declares that the proofs of eligibility for Indian Education Act grants set forth in the Department of Education letter dated November 25, 1985, will not apply for all students for grants distributed for FY 1986. Provides that school districts may count students for whom they are still seeking to obtain information for the FY 1986 grant period. Requires the Department of Education to take all necessary actions to adopt this interpretation and to immediately inform superintendents of the various school districts.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1986
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual taxpayer an income tax deduction for contributions to a savings account established to pay the education expenses (tuition, supplies, meals, and lodging) at an institution of higher education or a vocational school of the taxpayer or the child of the taxpayer unless the taxpayer has attained the age of 50 or the child has attained the age of 25. Limits the amount of such deduction to $2,000 (adjusted for inflation) for each account per calendar year. Provides that no account may have more than one beneficiary and that no individual may be a beneficiary of more than one account. Requires any balance in an education savings account to be distributed after the eligible individual for whose benefit the account is established attains the age of 60 if the eligible individual is the taxpayer or age 30 if the eligible individual is the taxpayer's child. Requires the trustee of the education savings account to transfer five percent of the amount of any contribution to a qualified State educational fund which provides educational assistance to individuals attending eligible educational institutions within the State. Requires that amounts paid or distributed out of an education savings account must be included in the gross income of each individual who has contributed to the account in the ratio of the amounts which they contributed to such accounts, unless such amount is used exclusively to pay the educational expenses incurred by the individual for whose benefit the account is established. Requires the beneficiary of an education savings account to include pro-rata over a ten-year period amounts paid or distributed out of the account which were used exclusively to pay the educational expenses incurred by that individual after specified dates. Provides that an education savings account is exempt from taxation except for the tax on unrelated business income. Revokes the tax exemption of the account where the individual for whose benefit the account is established engages in certain prohibited transactions with the account. Imposes a ten percent penalty tax on distributions which are not used for educational expenses. Requires the trustee of an education savings account to file reports with the Secretary of the Treasury on the maintenance of the account. Imposes a penalty for failure to file any required report. Extends the deduction for contributions to an education savings account to taxpayers who do not otherwise itemize deductions. Provides that distributions from an education savings account shall not be taken into account in determining support to the extent such distribution is excluded from gross income of the individual for whose benefit the account has been established. Provides that any payment made to an education savings account for the benefit of a child shall not be treated as a gift for gift tax purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1986
Commends Doctor William Moody for his creative use of professional skills and willingness to succeed in educating children.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1986
Amends the Education of the Handicapped Act to revise a formula for determining a "cap" on the amount of funds allotted to a State for the education of handicapped children. Provides that such "cap" applies when the number of handicapped children aged three through 21 exceeds 12 percent of the total number of children aged three through 21. (Current law makes such "cap" applicable when the number of handicapped children aged three through 21 exceeds 12 percent of the total number of children aged five through 17.)
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1986
Summer Youth Employment, Training, and Education Act of 1986 - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to require the addition of an education component to the summer youth employment and training programs under part B of title II (Training Services for the Disadvantaged) of JTPA. Requires that each service delivery area (SDA) be allotted an amount equal to at least 90 percent of the amount available to such area for the summer youth program in the preceding fiscal year. Requires ratable reductions in the allocation to each SDA if appropriations are not sufficient to provide such amount to each SDA. Requires that allotments to States and allocations to SDAs be: (1) made in accordance with provisions for prompt allocation of funds; and (2) available for planning purposes before the beginning of the summer months for which allotted and allocated. Requires that summer youth program funds be used so that participants spend a portion of their time on individualized, self-paced, remedial and basic academic and functional competency development and achieve specified types of performance standards established and developed in each SDA. Requires that the portion of a participant's time spent on such competency development be in addition to, and not in place of, regular employment under the summer youth program. Prohibits summer youth program funds from being used to provide employment to any individual who fails to comply with attendance standards established by the SDA with respect to such education components. Prohibits summer youth program funds from being used to compensate or reward participants for attendance at such education components, except under specified provisions which require that a portion of matching funds be used to provide bonuses to participants for achievement of academic and functional competence. Specifies that planning for summer youth programs does not have to be conducted during the summer months. Sets forth matching fund requirements for summer youth programs. Requires each private industry council (PIC), for each program year beginning after June 30, 1987, to make available from non-Federal sources an amount for use in such programs equal to at least one and one-half percent of the amount made available under JTPA for such programs in that SDA for the applicable program year. Limits, for any program year beginning after June 30, 1987, such matching amounts to not less than $20,000 and not more than $100,000 per SDA. Requires each PIC to notify the State of the PIC's matching amount by April 1 of the preceding program year. Requires each State, for program years beginning after June 30, 1987, to reserve three percent of its allotment under part A (Adult and Youth Programs) of title II of JTPA for allocation among PICs in proportion to the matching amounts made available by such PICS for such program years. Requires that such matching amounts be used to: (1) support the education and training components of the summer youth programs; (2) provide bonuses to participants for achievement of academic and functional competence; and (3) after complying with (1) and (2), create additional employment opportunities under the summer youth programs. Allows matching amounts to be in cash or in-kind, but requires that in-kind matching amounts be in the form of state-of-the-art basic and remedial education materials and equipment suitable for use for summer youth programs for the applicable program year. Requires each SDA to maintain complete records on the improvements in academic and functional competency attained by participants in the summer youth programs. Requires that such records be compiled by reference to State and locally determined general education diploma and basic education competency requirements. Requires each SDA to submit summaries of such records to the State. Requires States to submit annual reports on such summaries to the Secretary of Labor. Directs the Secretary to include an analysis of such reports in the Secretary's annual report to the Congress on employment and training programs. Provides that a specified portion of the State allotment under JTPA which is currently available for State education programs shall also be available to carry out matching requirements for summer youth programs.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1986
Student Chemical Substance Abuse Prevention Act of 1986 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to State and local educational agencies for demonstration projects designed to develop and expand drug and alcohol abuse prevention programs in public elementary and secondary schools. Sets forth demonstration program elements, application approval criteria, and reporting and evaluation requirements for such grants program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990.