Education

A joint resolution to designate November 17, 1987, as "National Community Education Day".

United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1987

Designates November 17, 1987, as National Community Education Day.

Education for Economic Security Amendments of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1987

Education for Economic Security Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Education for Economic Security Act to rename title II as the "Christa McAuliffe Teacher Training and Improvement Act." Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992 for such title. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to reserve up to 20 percent of such funds for national programs. Directs the Secretary to reserve: (1) one half of one percent for projects and activities in specified territories and possessions of the U.S.; and (2) one half of one percent for projects and activities for Indian children in Department of the Interior schools. Directs the Secretary to allot the remainder among States on the basis of number of children aged five to 17. Provides for reallotment under specified conditions. Sets forth provisions for programs for Indian children. Sets forth provisions for State and local projects. Requires eligible recipients (i.e. a local educational agency, institution of higher education, cultural institution, professional association, or other capable public or private agency) to submit applications to the State educational agency. Directs the State agency to use for State projects that portion of its allotment that is not distributed to eligible recipients or used for State administration. Requires such State and local project funds to be used for: (1) inservice education for teachers; (2) inservice education for school administrators; (3) retraining teachers who wish to teach different subjects; (4) programs, including scholarships and internships, for qualified persons in business and the professions who wish to become teachers or school administrators but who lack coursework in education; (5) preservice education of teachers and school administrators; (6) improved teacher education programs; (7) fellowships and opportunities for writing and research for teachers and school administrators; and (8) programs for exchange of professional personnel between education and other fields. Sets forth provisions for the participation of private nonprofit school teachers and administrators. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out research, development, evaluation, demonstration, dissemination, and data collection activities which are of national significance. Requires that Federal funds be used to supplement, not supplant, non-Federal funds. Repeals specified provisions of the Education Amendments of 1978 and the Higher Education Act of 1965.

A bill to amend section 788(d) of the Public Health Service Act to permit schools of nursing to obtain grants for training projects in geriatrics.

United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1987

Amends the Public Health Service Act to add schools of nursing as eligible recipients of certain grants for training projects relating to geriatric medicine.

A concurrent resolution to endorse the national certification of teachers in elementary and secondary education in the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1987

Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) an independent, professionally controlled, nonprofit National Board for Professional Teaching Standards should be established for teacher certification in elementary and secondary education; (2) the certification process and assessments associated with it should meet specified recommended standards; and (3) the States should decide whether to require certification for teaching licensure purposes. Encourages the States to: (1) recognize such certification process through teacher incentives; (2) consider the incorporation of Board standards in the teacher licensure process; and (3) broaden the scope of the certification process to include other education professionals.

A bill to provide for the payment of impact aid to certain school districts.

United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1987

Entitles a local educational agency to receive impact aid payments when: (1) the population of the school district is below 22,000; and (2) the United States owns Federal property aggregating 40 percent or more of the total assessed value of the district's real property.

A joint resolution to designate March 20, 1987, as "National Energy Education Day".

United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1987

Designates March 20, 1987, as National Energy Education Day.

United States-Mexico Border Health Education and Training Act of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1987

United States-Mexico Border Health Education and Training Act of 1987 - 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 1988 through 1990.

A bill to amend the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 to make permanent the administrative offset debt collection provisions with respect to education loans.

United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1987

Amends the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 to make permanent the authority of the Internal Revenue Service to offset tax refunds against defaulted Federal student loans.

Bilingual Education Act Amendments of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1987

Bilingual Education Act Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Bilingual Education 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 for special alternative instructional programs and related activities. Removes a requirement that the Secretary reserve at least 75 percent of funds for transitional bilingual education programs.

A concurrent resolution to express the sense of the Congress that a cooperative effort to improve the foreign language skills and international awareness of the American people will help the United States compete economically.

United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1987

Calls upon all levels of Government and the business and educational communities to cooperate in a concerted effort to improve the foreign language skills and international awareness of the American people in order to increase American international economic competitiveness.

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that each State should develop a curriculum for instructing school children in the history of the Holocaust.

United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1987

Expresses the sense of the Congress that each State should develop a curriculum for instructing school children in the history of the Nazi rise to power in Germany, the social and economic forces which were the foundations of Nazism, and the resulting horrors which were perpetrated against humanity by the Nazis.

A bill to improve the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1987

Title I: Investment in Human and Intellectual Capital Act of 1987 - Subtitle A: Education Consolidation and Improvement Act Amendments of 1987 - Education Consolidation and Improvement Act Amendments of 1987 - Part I: Programs to Meet the Special Educational Needs of Disadvantaged Children - Amends Chapter 1 (Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Disadvantaged Children) of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 (ECIA) to authorize appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992 for: (1) basic grants and concentration grants for local educational agencies (LEAs); (2) State programs for migratory children; (3) State programs for neglected and delinquent children; (4) State administration of Chapter 1 programs; and (5) demonstration projects, evaluations, technical assistance, and other activities. Requires each State wishing to receive a Chapter 1 grant to submit, through its State educational agency (SEA), an application for up to three years for each Chapter 1 program for which it seeks assistance. Requires such application to describe criteria, policies, and procedures to: (1) assess the educational effectiveness of LEA Chapter 1 programs; (2) direct an LEA to take corrective measures if it is failing to provide effective Chapter 1 services; (3) permit LEAs that conduct highly successful Chapter 1 programs to implement schoolwide improvement programs in attendance areas in which at least 40 percent of the children are from low-income families; and (4) award incentive grants. Sets forth factors upon which assessments of educational effectiveness may be based. Requires each SEA, at least once every three years, to evaluate the educational effectiveness of services, including those for private school children, provided under Chapter 1 by each participating SEA and LEA. Requires such evaluations to be made available to the public. Amends title I (Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Children) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise provisions governing the allocation of funds for basic and concentration grants under Chapter 1 of the ECIA. Directs the Secretary of Education to set aside not more than one percent of such funds for: (1) specified U.S. territories and possessions according to their respective needs; and (2) Department of the Interior Indian schools. Provides that Puerto Rico's share of such funds would be the same as its share for FY 1987. Directs the Secretary to use 95 percent of such funds for basic grants and five percent for concentration grants. Provides that allocation of basic grants to LEAs shall be on the basis of the number of poor children in excess of two percent of the total number of children in the school district. Revises requirements relating to the selection of school attendance areas for Chapter 1 programs. Requires LEAs to conduct Chapter 1 programs only in attendance areas that are among the poorest one-third of all areas in the district, in rank order of their poverty as measured by the number or percentage of poor children. Requires LEAs to provide services only to those children in greatest need of special assistance. Allows an LEA to serve attendance areas in rank order but beyond the poorest one-third if more than 25 percent of the children are from low-income families. Allows projects in attendance areas beyond the poorest one-third and without regard for the ordering requirement if the percentage of poor children in each attendance area in the district is within five percent of the district-wide percentage of poor children. Limits to one year the period during which previously eligible attendance areas and children may continue to be served under Chapter 1 programs. Revises Chapter 1 requirements relating to parental involvement in local programs. Requires each LEA to develop written policies to ensure that parents have adequate opportunity to participate in the design and implementation of its Chapter 1 project. Requires each LEA, at an annual meeting, to: (1) inform parents of their right to be consulted in such design and implementation; (2) request their comments and recommendations; and (3) inform parents of their right to establish procedures for discussing among themselves, with teachers, and with appropriate LEA officials the LEA's Chapter 1 program. Includes among resources and activities which may be provided to parents: (1) space and materials for meetings; (2) information on statutes and regulations applicable to Chapter 1 programs; and (3) training. Requires the SEA to approve LEA applications for basic and concentration grants that comply with Chapter 1 requirements. Directs the SEA to take corrective action when it finds that an LEA has substantially failed to carry out a Chapter 1 requirement. Provides that such corrective action may include the withholding of funds or directing the LEA to issue compensatory education certificates. Provides for reallocation of withheld funds. Revises ECIA and ESEA provisions under which LEAs may conduct Chapter 1 projects on a schoolwide basis. Lowers from 75 percent to 60 percent the minimum percentage of poor children which a school must have in order to conduct schoolwide improvement. Eliminates a fiscal matching requirement for schoolwide improvement. Requires that local evaluations of Chapter 1 programs include an assessment of the impact that schoolwide projects have on the educational progress of educationally deprived children. Authorizes LEAs to provide compensatory education certificates to parents of educationally deprived children if such provision: (1) would be more effective in meeting the needs of eligible children than direct services provided by the LEA; or (2) is needed to provide services required under Chapter 1, including services to private school children. Allows each LEA to provide such certificates on the basis of individual grade levels, schools, attendance areas, or any combination thereof. Requires the LEA to apply the same criteria to public and private school children in determining the extent to which there is a need to provide such certificates. Sets the value of each certificate at an amount determined by the LEA to be equitable to all children selected to participate in the LEA's Chapter 1 program. Prohibits the amount of funds paid to parents from exceeding their actual cost of purchasing compensatory services. Requires uses of certificate proceeds only to purchase supplementary compensatory education services that meet the identified special educational needs of the eligible child. Provides that such services may be purchased from any elementary or secondary school that the LEA determines is able to provide appropriate services. Authorizes the LEA to specify other types of public and private organizations, such as institutions of higher education, from which parents may purchase such services. Permits each LEA to use Chapter 1 funds for the additional transportation costs of a child using such a certificate. Provides that certificate funds are not income for Federal income tax purposes. Requires LEAs to include information and assurances relating to certificates in their Chapter 1 applications. Provides that parents of educationally deprived children in private schools be provided compensatory education certificates on the same basis as public school children. Provides that use of certificate funds by parents at private schools or at LEAs outside the school district where the child resides would not subject those schools to specified maintenance of effort, supplement-not-supplant, or comparability requirements. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to carry out, directly or through grants, activities consistent with Chapter 1 purposes, including: (1) testing and demonstrating innovative methods for educating educationally deprived students, including projects that focus on parental involvement; (2) evaluating Chapter 1 programs and projects; (3) identifying and disseminating information about outstanding local Chapter 1 programs; and (4) providing technical assistance to Chapter 1 grantees. Directs SEAs to set aside one percent of Chapter 1 funds for incentive grants to LEAs. Requires an LEA to treat such an incentive grant as part of its regular Chapter 1 grant and use it to: (1) extend its program to additional students or schools or otherwise improve its programs; or (2) disseminate information on its program to other schools or LEAs. Revises ECIA and ESEA provisions relating to programs for migrant children. Gives declining weights to the number of formerly migrant children. Requires coordination of Chapter 1 migrant projects with other State and local programs for migrants. Gives priority for participation: first, to all currently migratory children from kindergarten through grade 12; second, to all currently migratory preschool children; and third, to formerly migrant children from kindergarten through grade 12. Repeals specified requirements relating to the Migrant Student Records Transfer System. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to operate the records system and coordinate migrant services. Eliminates a minimum requirement for spending on coordination of migrant education activities. Revises ESEA provisions relating to transition services for neglected and delinquent children. Authorizes each State to set aside up to ten percent of funds for neglected and delinquent children to support projects that facilitate the transition of such children from State-operated institutions to locally operated programs. Amends the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA) to transfer funding of the ECIA Chapter 1 program for handicapped children to the EHA. Allows States, in establishing their EHA entitlement, to count children who are, or used to be, in State-operated or State-supported programs for handicapped children. Sets forth hold-harmless provisions for purposes of such transfer of funding. Revises ECIA and ESEA provisions that authorize payments to States for administrative costs of Chapter 1 programs. Provides for such payments to each State based on its share of the overall Chapter 1 appropriation. Sets a required minimum payment. Makes applicable only to compensatory education programs and not to other types of special programs for educationally disadvantaged children a provision excluding certain State and local funds from the supplement-not-supplant and comparability requirements of Chapter 1. Makes such exemption available to SEAs as well as LEAs. Repeals a provision allowing States to make certain allocations to LEAs rather than counties under specified conditions. Eliminates a requirement that the State agency programs are to be fully funded and basic grant awards are to be ratably reduced where appropriations are not sufficient to fully fund all Chapter 1 programs. Revises certain ESEA definitions applicable to Chapter 1 of the ECIA. Amends the definition of "average per pupil expenditure" to provide for the use of the most recent satisfactory data. Amends the General Education Provisions Act to direct the Secretary, with specified exceptions, to return to the Treasury any funds recovered by the Department of Education from a recipient after those funds are no longer available for obligation. Repeals specified provisions of the ESEA. Part II: Educational Reform and Improvement - Changes the heading of Chapter 2 of the ECIA from "Consolidation of Federal Programs for Elementary and Secondary Education" to "Educational Reform and Improvement." Revises Chapter 2 State block grant program purposes. Provides that Chapter 2 funds are to assist State and local efforts to achieve excellence in elementary and secondary education (including preschool) through the implementation of educational reform and improvement programs for children attending both public and private schools. Provides for Chapter 2 assistance to SEAs and LEAs: (1) in accordance with those agencies' own determinations of their needs and priorities; and (2) in a manner that imposes minimal administrative and paperwork burdens upon schools and increases their ability to educate children. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992 to carry out Chapter 2 of the ECIA. Changes the amount reserved for Chapter 2 payments to the Outlying Areas from a mandated one percent to no more than one percent of the Chapter 2 appropriation. Revises provisions relating to local allocations. Provides that relative enrollments shall be calculated on the basis of the total of the number of children enrolled in public schools and the number of children enrolled in private, nonprofit schools whose parents desire their children to participate in Chapter 2 programs or projects. Provides that SEAs shall use funds not distributed to LEAs to support States programs and activities. Revises the list of authorized Chapter 2 projects and activities. Focuses such list upon educational reform and improvement. Includes among authorized projects: (1) projects designed to improve instruction in the basic skills of reading, mathematics, and written and oral communication, including projects designed to provide parents with the literacy skills needed to help their children learn to read; (2) projects designed to enhance educational opportunities for economically or academically disadvantaged children, including children who attend schools undergoing desegregation; (3) projects designed to identify and meet special educational needs of children who demonstrate extraordinary intellectual, academic, creative, artistic, or leadership capabilities; (4) the development of plans and policies to measure the academic proficiency of students, to assist students to achieve existing standards, and to raise those standards; (5) projects designed to achieve and maintain in schools an orderly environment conducive to learning, including activities to promote safety, reduce crime, drug use, and vandalism, and otherwise maintain school discipline; (6) projects designed to encourage students to stay in school or to encourage dropouts to resume their education; (7) projects designed to teach the principles and values of good citizenship and to increase students' understanding of government; (8) pre-school and in-school partnership projects in which parents participate in their children's education; (9) projects that provide parents with greater choice in the selection of their children's schools; (10) the development of merit pay, career ladder, and master teacher programs; (11) inservice training and retraining of teachers in academic subjects; (12) the development of more rigorous graduation requirements and plans to increase instructional time; (13) the recognition and dissemination of effective educational practices; (14) school partnerships with business, industry, government, and higher education; (15) the acquisition of textbooks, school library resources, and other instructional equipment and materials; and (16) any other project consistent with the purposes of Chapter 2. Provides that projects and activities may be conducted at the elementary or secondary level (including preschool). Authorizes an SEA to use Chapter 2 funds that are not distributed to LEAs to: (1) develop procedures or take other corrective actions to provide a high quality education for students who are attending public elementary and secondary schools that the SEA determines are either unable or unwilling to meet that responsibility themselves; (2) pay the additional cost of participating in the National Cooperative Education Statistics System; and (3) pay administrative costs for Chapter 2, up to five percent of the State's grant. Establishes a single list of authorized activities under subchapter A by repealing subchapters B and C. Eliminates, as outdated, provisions which repealed a number of antecedent categorical programs that were consolidated by Chapter 2. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out specified discretionary programs. Removes a limitation that required such funding to be allocated first to certain programs. Authorizes the Secretary in certain circumstances to grant a temporary waiver of the requirement that Chapter 2 funds may not be used to supplant funds from non-Federal sources. Part III: National Cooperative Education Statistics System - Amends the General Education Provisions Act to establish within the Center for Education Statistics a National Cooperative Education Statistics System to produce and maintain, with the cooperation of the States, comparable and uniform educational information and data that are useful for policy-making at the Federal, State, and local levels. Subtitle B: Bilingual Education Act Amendments of 1987 - Bilingual Education Act Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Bilingual Education Act to remove a requirement that restricts the amount of funds available for special alternative instructional programs. Removes a requirement that reserves a specified amount for transitional bilingual education programs. Subtitle C: Worker Readjustment Act - Worker Readjustment Act - Authorizes appropriations to carry out this subtitle for FY 1988 and succeeding fiscal years. Reserves specified amounts of such funds for use under specified parts of this subtitle. Part 1: Service Delivery System and Basic Program Requirements - Subpart A: Service Delivery System - Sets forth provisions for agreements between the Secretary of Labor and State Governors to carry out this subtitle. Requires each State to ensure the establishment of a rapid response capability to respond to significant dislocation events. Provides that such capability shall assess the need for and initially provide early readjustment assistance, including activities associated with the formation of joint labor-management committees. States that such capability may also include: (1) incentives to encourage employers to give early notification of dislocation events; (2) emergency assistance centers geared to individual plant closings; (3) the development of direct delivery teams; and (4) the development of a system for early identification of prospective dislocation events. Requires each State to establish linkages between the unemployment compensation system and the worker readjustment program system. Sets forth provisions for designation of substate areas, substate grantees, and substate plans. Sets forth the responsibilities of State training and employment councils and private industry councils. Designates as eligible for services individuals who: (1) have been terminated or laid off or have received a notice of termination or layoff from employment, are eligible for or have exhausted their entitlement to unemployment compensation, and are unlikely to return to their previous industry or occupation; (2) have been terminated or have received notice of termination of employment, as a result of any permanent closure of a plant or facility; (3) are long-term unemployed (at least 15 weeks) and have limited opportunities for employment or reemployment in the same or a similar occupation in the area in which they reside, including any older individuals; or (4) were self-employed (including farmers and ranchers) and are unemployed as a result of general economic conditions in the community in which they reside, or because of natural disasters. Provides that participation by any individual in programs authorized under this subtitle shall be deemed to be acceptance of training with the approval of the State within the meaning of any other provision of Federal law relating to unemployment benefits. Sets forth provisions relating to the authority of the State legislature and interstate agreements. Subpart B: Additional Program Requirements - Sets forth general program provisions, labor standards, labor consultation requirements, and nondiscrimination provisions. Subpart C: Federal Fiscal and Administrative Provisions - Sets forth provisions relating to fund obligation, monitoring, fiscal controls, sanctions, reports, recordkeeping, investigations, administrative adjudication, judicial review, administrative provisions, utilization of services and facilities, and appeals. Part 2: Basic Readjustment Services - Directs the Secretary to allot funds for part 1 and this part among States according to relative numbers of: (1) unemployed individuals; (2) excess unemployed individuals; and (3) individuals who have been unemployed for 15 weeks or more. Authorizes the Governor to retain: (1) up to ten percent of the State allotment, or a minimum amount established by the Secretary, for overall State level administration, technical assistance, coordination, and early notification and rapid response activities; and (2) an additional amount up to ten percent of the State allotment, or a minimum amount established by the Secretary, to be allotted at the discretion of the Governor for activities allowable under parts 1, 2, or 3. Directs the Governor to allocate the remainder of the State allotment to all substate areas for basic readjustment services, based on an allocation formula which utilizes the most appropriate information to distribute amounts to address the State's worker readjustment assistance needs. Sets forth provisions for selection of service providers. Provides that basic readjustment services and activities may include: (1) development of individual readjustment plans for participants; (2) implementation of voluntary early notification procedures; (3) rapid response capability which may include rapid response contingency grants for planning and administrative expenses involved in developing effective programmatic responses to dislocation events; (4) early readjustment assistance; (5) counseling; (6) testing; (7) orientation; (8) assessment, including evaluation of educational attainment and participant interests and aptitudes; (9) determination of occupational skills; (10) provision of future world-of-work and occupational information; (11) job placement assistance; (12) labor market information; (13) job clubs; (14) local job search; (15) job development; (16) self-directed job search; and (17) retraining services. Authorizes the substate grantee to provide appropriate supportive services. Sets forth cost limitations and reallotment and reallocation provisions. Part 3: Worker Readjustment Training Program - Directs the Secretary to allot funds for this part according to an annual availability target for each State. Sets forth cost limitations. Authorizes substate grantees to provide appropriate supportive services. Provides that training services may include: (1) entrepreneurial training; (2) classroom training; (3) occupational skill training; (4) on-the-job training; (5) out-of-area job search; (6) relocation; (7) basic and remedial education; (8) literacy and English for non-English speakers training; and (9) other appropriate training activities directly related to appropriate employment opportunities. Prohibits use of funds for public service employment or work experience. Sets forth requirements for readjustment training plans. Provides that eligible readjustment training participants shall receive retraining services, a voucher, or a certificate of continuing eligibility. Part 4: National Reserve Program - Provides that funds under this part may be used to provide services of the type described in parts 2 and 3 in the following circumstances: (1) mass layoffs caused by natural disasters, when the workers are not expected to return to their previous occupations; (2) other mass layoffs; (3) industrywide projects; and (4) multistate projects. Provides that such funds may also be used to provide such services whenever the Secretary, with the agreement of the Governor, determines that an emergency exists with respect to any particular distressed industry or area. Provides that up to five percent of such funds may be used to provide staff training and technical assistance services to States, communities, businesses, labor organizations, and other entities involved in providing adjustment assistance to workers. Authorizes the Secretary to provide such services under proposals for financial assistance. Directs the Secretary to establish a Federal Worker Readjustment Advisory Council to review information on worker dislocation and the performance of programs operated under this subtitle. Part 5: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to change the name of the State job training coordinating council to the State Training and Employment Council. Revises provisions for membership on private industry councils and the State Training and Employment Council to provide that in making appointment of private sector members recognition should be given to council responsibilities under the Wagner-Peyser Act and consideration given to appointing members of the business community who have served in an advisory capacity in providing employment services. Revises the formula for membership on the State Training and Employment Council. Authorizes the Secretary to implement appropriate procedures to terminate activities under title III (Employment and Training Assistance for Dislocated Workers) of JTPA and to provide for an orderly transition to the activities authorized under this subtitle. Ends funding for title III of the JTPA at the end of FY 1987. Amends the Wagner-Peyser Act to require private industry councils to review and evaluate the provision of public employment services in a service delivery area and to provide policy guidance with respect to local labor market conditions and needs. Requires the State Training and Employment Council to review, monitor, and evaluate the activities of the State in providing public employment services. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for Federal unemployment tax credits for employers who give advance notice of plant closings or mass layoffs. Allows States to give similar credits. Sets criminal penalties for embezzlement from employment and training funds, for improper inducement, and for obstructing investigations. Repeals title III of the JTPA on October 1, 1988, or one year following the date of enactment of this subtitle, whichever is later. Subtitle D: AFDC and Summer Youth Employment and Training Amendments of 1987 - AFDC and Summer Youth Employment and Training Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to add provisions for an AFDC Youth Employment and Training Program. Allows each service delivery area to elect to use specified funds for such program in addition to or in lieu of services for youth available under the summer Youth Employment and Training Program. Provides that the AFDC Youth program may be conducted on a year-round basis. Makes an individual eligible to participate in the AFDC Youth program if such individual: (1) is aged 16 through 21, or 14 through 21 if appropriate and set forth in the job training plan; (2) is receiving payments, or whose needs are considered in determining payments, made under the program of aid to families with dependent children under a State plan approved under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act; and (3) is at risk of becoming a long-term welfare recipient or long-term unemployed. Provides for the following services: (1) basic and remedial education; (2) drug and alcohol abuse counseling; (3) pregnancy and pregnancy prevention counseling; (4) child care classes; (5) life skills planning classes; (6) classroom training, on-the-job training, work experience, job search assistance, employment counseling, world-of-work orientation, and any other educational, employment, or job training activity designed to prepare participants for, or place them in, employment; and (7) supportive services necessary to enable such individuals to participate in the program. Subtitle E: Employment Services Act of 1987 - Employment Services Act of 1987 - Amends the Wagner-Peyser Act to eliminate reference to the United States Employment Service. Directs the Secretary of Labor to disseminate information that may be of assistance to States in the provision of public employment services. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake such research, analysis, job classification programs, test development, statistical studies, automation design and other activities, including technical assistance, as will further these activities. Directs the Secretary to maintain a system for clearing labor between the States. Authorizes the Secretary to provide guidance to the States with respect to their provision of public employment services, with particular attention toward promoting State review of the need for specified activities and the implementation of national priorities. Authorizes the Secretary, in his or her discretion, to enter into agreements with State Governors whereby: (1) the State carries out any authority vested in the Secretary by this or any other Act, when the Secretary determines that such activities are consistent with the provision of State public employment services, for such reimbursement as may be agreed upon and consistent with applicable law; or (2) the Secretary carries out authorized activities specifically requested by a State and for which reimbursement from the State to the Department of Labor is provided. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Governor of Guam under which Guam will provide public employment services after July 1, 1990. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes. Requires State Governors to enter into agreements with the Secretary in order to receive financial assistance for public employment services. Authorizes appropriations to support public employment services in the States, but provides that no such appropriations are authorized for any program year that commences on or after July 1, 1990. Requires States in providing public employment services to give particular attention to specified needs. Allows States to charge a reasonable fee for a particular service to any party which benefits therefrom, if not otherwise prohibited by law, rule, or regulation. Allows States to make referrals of workers to agencies which may charge for their employment assistance services. Requires State Governors to provide annual plans for provision of public employment services. Requires the private industry council for a service delivery area to review and evaluate the provision of public employment services in such area. Directs the State Training and Employment Council to review, monitor, and evaluate the activities of the State in providing public employment services. Makes conforming amendments to the Job Training Partnership Act. Title II: National Science Foundation Authorization Act - National Science Foundation Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 through 1992 - Expresses the finding of the Congress that the programs of the National Science Foundation (NSF) should be doubled in size over the next five years. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992 for the NSF. Sets forth categories for which the FY 1988 and 1989 funds are to be available. Sets limits on NSF consultation and representation expenses. Sets forth conditions for transfer of funds among categories. Amends the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 to allow portions of National Science Board meetings to be closed to the public when the Board considers possible NSF budgets for a particular fiscal year, or other legislative proposals that might be submitted to the Congress, if the President's budget for that fiscal year or the legislative proposal in question has not yet been submitted to the Congress. States that the Director is the head of the NSF. Repeals provisions which required certain oaths and statements before acceptance of NSF scholarships or fellowships and which made members of Communist organizations ineligible for such scholarships or fellowships. Amends the National Science Foundation Authorization and Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act to revise provisions for membership on the Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering. Requires such Committee to report biennially rather than annually.

English Proficiency Act

United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1987

English Proficiency Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to establish within the Office of Adult Education a program of grants for English literacy programs for individuals of limited English proficiency. Allows such grants to provide for the training of personnel to provide English language instruction and for support services including child care and transportation costs for program participants. Provides that such grants may be made to community-based organizations, local education agencies, tribally-controlled schools, institutions of higher education (including community colleges), public libraries, and prisons. Sets forth grant application requirements. Limits grants to not more than three years' duration. Requires that at least 50 percent of grant funds go to community-based organizations with the demonstrated capability to administer English proficiency programs. Requires grant recipients to report annually to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary, through the Office of Adult Education, directly and through grants and contracts, to carry out demonstration programs to: (1) develop innovative approaches and methods of literacy education for individuals of limited English proficiency; and (2) establish a nationwide clearinghouse on literacy education for individuals of limited English proficiency. Requires the Secretary, directly and through grants and contracts, to evaluate and annually audit programs funded under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to accept grants, gifts, or bequests of money for the purposes of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990. Limits to five percent the portion of funds available under this Act which may be used for demonstration programs.

Targeted Educational Assistance Act

United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1987

Targeted Educational Assistance Act - Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 to require that State and local educational agencies use funds from grants to States under Chapter 2 (Consolidation of Federal Programs for Elementary and Secondary Education) exclusively for any or all of the following critical areas: (1) school dropout prevention programs; (2) programs to combat illiteracy; (3) programs for the gifted and talented; (4) basic skills instruction programs for economically disadvantaged elementary and secondary school students; and (5) the acquisition and use of school library books and textbooks. Authorizes appropriations for the targeted assistance program for FY 1988 through 1993. Sets forth authorized uses of funds for programs in each of the critical areas.

A concurrent resolution to express the sense of the Congress that a cooperative effort to improve the foreign language and international awareness of the American people will help the United States compete economically.

United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1987

Calls upon all levels of Government and the business and educational communities to cooperate in a concerted effort to improve the foreign language skills and international awareness of the American people in order to increase American international economic competitiveness.

Adult Education Act Amendments of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1987

Adult Education Act Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Adult Education Act to authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to eligible States for adult education programs which teach literacy skills needed in the workplace through partnerships between the business community and educational agencies or schools. Sets forth State eligibility and program requirements. Allows the Secretary to make direct grants to qualified applicants from ineligible States. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992.

Beryl Dorsett, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education, vice Lawrence F. Davenport.

United States · United States Senate · 26 February 1987

Education Consolidation and Improvement Act Amendments of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1987

Education Consolidation and Improvement Act Amendments of 1987 - Part I: Programs to Meet the Special Educational Needs of Disadvantaged Children - Amends Chapter 1 (Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Disadvantaged Children) of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 (ECIA) to authorize appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992 for: (1) basic grants and concentration grants for local educational agencies (LEAs); (2) State programs for migratory children; (3) State programs for neglected and delinquent children; (4) State administration of Chapter 1 programs; and (5) demonstration projects, evaluations, technical assistance, and other activities. Requires each State wishing to receive a Chapter 1 grant to submit, through its State educational agency (SEA), an application for up to three years for each Chapter 1 program for which it seeks assistance. Requires such application to describe criteria, policies, and procedures to: (1) assess the educational effectiveness of LEA Chapter 1 programs; (2) direct an LEA to take corrective measures if it is failing to provide effective Chapter 1 services; (3) permit LEAs that conduct highly successful Chapter 1 programs to implement schoolwide improvement programs in attendance areas in which at least 40 percent of the children are from low-income families; and (4) award incentive grants. Sets forth factors upon which assessments of educational effectiveness may be based. Requires each SEA, at least once every three years, to evaluate the educational effectiveness of services, including those for private school children, provided under Chapter 1 by each participating SEA and LEA. Requires such evaluations to be made available to the public. Amends title I (Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Children) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise provisions governing the allocation of funds for basic and concentration grants under Chapter 1 of the ECIA. Directs the Secretary of Education (Secretary) to set aside not more than one percent of such funds for: (1) specified U.S. territories and possessions according to their respective needs; and (2) Department of the Interior Indian schools. Provides that Puerto Rico's share of such funds would be the same as its share for FY 1987. Directs the Secretary to use 95 percent of such funds for basic grants and five percent for concentration grants. Provides that allocation of basic grants to LEAs shall be on the basis of the number of poor children in excess of two percent of the total number of children in the school district. Revises requirements relating to the selection of school attendance areas for Chapter 1 programs. Requires LEAs to conduct Chapter 1 programs only in attendance areas that are among the poorest one-third of all areas in the district, in rank order of their poverty as measured by the number or percentage of poor children. Requires LEAs to provide services only to those children in greatest need of special assistance. Allows an LEA to serve attendance areas in rank order but beyond the poorest one-third if more than 25 percent of the children are from low-income families. Allows projects in attendance areas beyond the poorest one-third and without regard for the ordering requirement if the percentage of poor children in each attendance area in the district is within five percent of the district-wide percentage of poor children. Limits to one year the period during which previously eligible attendance areas and children may continue to be served under Chapter 1 programs. Revises Chapter 1 requirements relating to parental involvement in local programs. Requires each LEA to develop written policies to ensure that parents have adequate opportunity to participate in the design and implementation of its Chapter 1 project. Requires each LEA, at an annual meeting, to: (1) inform parents of their right to be consulted in such design and implementation; (2) request their comments and recommendations; and (3) inform parents of their right to establish procedures for discussing among themselves, with teachers, and with appropriate LEA officials the LEA's Chapter 1 program. Includes among resources and activities which may be provided to parents: (1) space and materials for meetings; (2) information on statutes and regulations applicable to Chapter 1 programs; and (3) training. Requires the SEA to approve LEA applications for basic and concentration grants that comply with Chapter 1 requirements. Directs the SEA to take corrective action when it finds that an LEA has substantially failed to carry out a Chapter 1 requirement. Provides that such corrective action may include withholding of funds or directing the LEA to issue compensatory education certificates. Provides for reallocation of withheld funds. Revises ECIA and ESEA provisions under which LEAs may conduct Chapter 1 projects on a schoolwide basis. Lowers from 75 percent to 60 percent the minimum percentage of poor children which a school must have in order to conduct schoolwide improvement. Eliminates a fiscal matching requirement for schoolwide improvement. Requires that local evaluations of Chapter 1 programs include an assessment of the impact that schoolwide projects have on the educational progress of educationally deprived children. Authorizes LEAs to provide compensatory education certificates to parents of educationally deprived children if such provision: (1) would be more effective in meeting the needs of eligible children than direct services provided by the LEA; or (2) is needed to provide services required under Chapter 1, including services to private school children. Allows each LEA to provide such certificates on the basis of individual grade levels, schools, attendance areas, or any combination thereof. Requires the LEA to apply the same criteria to public and private school children in determining the extent to which there is a need to provide such certificates. Sets the value of each certificate at an amount determined by the LEA to be equitable to all children selected to participate in the LEA's Chapter 1 program. Prohibits the amount of funds paid to parents from exceeding their actual cost of purchasing compensatory services. Requires use of certificate proceeds only to purchase supplementary compensatory education services that meet the identified special educational needs of the parent's eligible child. Provides that such services may be purchased from any elementary or secondary school that the LEA determines is able to provide appropriate services. Authorizes the LEA also to specify other types of public and private organizations, such as institutions of higher education, from which parents may purchase such services. Permits each LEA to use Chapter 1 funds for the additional transportation costs of a child using such a certificate. Provides that certificate funds are not income for Federal income tax purposes. Requires LEAs to include information and assurances relating to certificates in their Chapter 1 applications. Provides that parents of educationally deprived children in private schools be provided compensatory education certificates on the same basis as public school children. Provides that use of certificate funds by parents at private schools or at LEAs outside the school district where the child resides would not subject those schools to specified maintenance of effort, supplement-not-supplant, or comparability requirements. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to carry out, directly or through grants, activities consistent with Chapter 1 purposes, including: (1) testing and demonstrating innovative methods for educating educationally deprived students, including projects that focus on parental involvement; (2) evaluating Chapter 1 programs and projects; (3) identifying and disseminating information about outstanding local Chapter 1 programs; and (4) providing technical assistance to Chapter 1 grantees. Directs SEAs to set aside one percent of Chapter 1 funds for incentive grants to LEAs. Requires an LEA to treat such an incentive grant as part of its regular Chapter 1 grant and use it to: (1) extend its program to additional students or schools or otherwise improve its programs; or (2) disseminate information on its program to other schools or LEAs. Revises ECIA and ESEA provisions relating to programs for migrant children. Gives declining weights to the numbers of formerly migrant children. Requires coordination of Chapter 1 migrant projects with other State and local programs for migrants. Gives priority for participation: first, to all currently migratory children from kindergarten through grade 12; second, to all currently migratory preschool children; and third, to formerly migrant children from kindergarten through grade 12. Repeals specified requirements relating to the Migrant Student Records Transfer System. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to operate the records system and coordinate migrant services. Eliminates a minimum requirement for spending on coordination of migrant education activities. Revises ESEA provisions relating to transition services for neglected and delinquent children. Authorizes each State to set aside up to ten percent of funds for neglected and delinquent children to support projects that facilitate the transition of such children from State-operated institutions to locally operated programs. Amends the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA) to transfer funding of the ECIA Chapter 1 program for handicapped children to the EHA. Allows States, in establishing their EHA entitlement, to count children who are, or used to be, in State-operated or State-supported programs for handicapped children. Sets forth hold-harmless provisions for purposes of such transfer of funding. Revises ECIA and ESEA provisions that authorize payments to States for administrative costs of Chapter 1 programs. Provides for such payments to each State based on its share of the overall Chapter 1 appropriation. Sets a required minimum payment. Makes applicable only to compensatory education programs and not to other types of special programs for educationally disadvantaged children a provision excluding certain State and local funds from the supplement-not-supplant and comparability requirements of Chapter 1. Makes such exemption available to SEAs as well an LEAs. Repeals a provision allowing States to make certain allocations to LEAs rather than counties under specified conditions. Eliminates a requirement that the State agency programs be fully funded and basic grant awards be ratably reduced where appropriations are not sufficient to fully fund all Chapter 1 programs. Revises certain ESEA definitions applicable to Chapter 1 of the ECIA. Amends the definition of average per pupil expenditure to provide for the use of the most recent satisfactory data. Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) to direct the Secretary, with specified exceptions, to return to the Treasury any funds recovered by the Department of Education from a recipient after those funds are no longer available for obligation. Repeals specified provisions of the ESEA. Part II: Educational Reform and Improvement - Changes the heading of Chapter 2 of the ECIA from "Consolidation of Federal Programs for Elementary and Secondary Education" to "Educational Reform and Improvement." Revises Chapter 2 State block grant program purposes. Provides that Chapter 2 funds are to assist State and local efforts to achieve excellence in elementary and secondary education (including preschool) through the implementation of educational reform and improvement programs for children attending both public and private schools. Provides for Chapter 2 assistance to SEAs and LEAs: (1) in accordance with those agencies' own determinations of their needs and priorities; and (2) in a manner that imposes minimal administrative and paperwork burdens upon schools and increases their ability to educate children. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992 to carry out Chapter 2 of the ECIA. Changes the amount reserved for Chapter 2 payments to the Outlying Areas from a mandated one percent to no more than one percent of the Chapter 2 appropriation. Revises provisions relating to local allocations. Provides that relative enrollments shall be calculated on the basis of the total of the number of children enrolled in public schools and the number of children enrolled in private, nonprofit schools that desire their children to participate in Chapter 2 programs or projects. Provides that SEAs shall use funds not distributed to LEAs to support State programs and activities. Revises the list of authorized Chapter 2 projects and activities. Focuses such list upon educational reform and improvement. Includes among authorized projects: (1) projects designed to improve instruction in the basic skills of reading, mathematics, and written and oral communications, including projects designed to provide parents with the literacy skills needed to help their children learn to read; (2) projects designed to enhance educational opportunities for economically or academically disadvantaged children, including children who attend schools undergoing desegregation; (3) projects designed to identify and meet special educational needs of children who demonstrate extraordinary intellectual, academic, creative, artistic, or leadership capabilities; (4) the development of plans and policies to measure the academic proficiency of students, assist students to achieve existing standards, and raise those standards; (5) projects designed to achieve and maintain in schools an orderly environment conducive to learning, including activities to promote safety, reduce crime, drug use, and vandalism, and otherwise maintain school discipline; (6) projects designed to encourage students to stay in school or encourage dropouts to resume their education; (7) projects designed to teach the principles and values of good citizenship and increase students' understanding of government; (8) pre-school and in-school partnership projects in which parents participate in their children's education; (9) projects that provide parents with greater choice in the selection of their children's schools; (10) the development of merit pay, career ladder, and master teacher programs; (11) inservice training and retraining of teachers in academic subjects; (12) the development of more rigorous graduation requirements and plans to increase instructional time; (13) the recognition and dissemination of effective educational practices; (14) school partnerships with business, industry, government, and higher education; (15) the acquisition of textbooks, school library resources, and other instructional equipment and materials; and (16) any other project consistent with the purposes of Chapter 2. Provides that projects and activities may be conducted at the elementary or secondary level (including preschool). Authorizes an SEA to use Chapter 2 funds that are not distributed to LEAs to: (1) develop procedures or take other corrective actions to provide a high quality education for students who are attending public elementary and secondary schools that the SEA determines are either unable or unwilling to meet that responsibility themselves; (2) pay the additional cost of participating in the National Cooperative Education Statistics System; and (3) pay administrative costs for Chapter 2, up to five percent of the State's grants. Establishes a single list of authorized activities under subchapter A by repealing subchapters B and C. Eliminates, as outdated, provisions which repealed a number of antecedent categorical programs that were consolidated by Chapter 2. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out specified discretionary programs. Removes a limitation that required such funding to first be allocated to certain programs. Authorizes the Secretary in certain circumstances to grant a temporary waiver of the requirement that Chapter 2 funds may not be used to supplant funds from non-Federal sources. Part III: National Cooperative Education Statistics System - Amends the General Education Provisions Act to establish within the Center for Education Statistics a National Cooperative Education Statistics System to produce and maintain, with the cooperation of the States, comparable and uniform educational information and data that are useful for policy-making at the Federal, State, and local levels.

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate on continued funding for vocational education.

United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1987

Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) no funds appropriated for vocational education for FY 1987 should be rescinded; and (2) the Federal Government should continue its funding commitment to vocational education for future years.

Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act Amendments of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1987

Indian Self-Determination Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 to make a tribal organization, in cases where the Indian Health Service has no direct care facilities and the Indian tribes are served by such tribal organization, eligible to receive a contract for the performance of services provided the tribal organization has the approval of each tribe it proposes to serve. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, upon the request of an Indian tribe, to enter into construction contracts with tribal organizations for the benefit of such tribes. Extends the Secretary's authority to enter into such contracts with such tribal organizations to administer education program functions even when such functions (including construction programs) are the subject of appropriations made to other agencies and regardless of the office within which they are performed in the Department of the Interior. Requires contract declination appeals and hearings to be conducted under the same procedures as other declinations. Extends the Secretary of Health and Human Services' authority to enter into contracts with Indian tribal organizations to implement hospital and health facility functions even when such functions are the subject of appropriations made to other agencies or regardless of the office within which they are performed in the Department of Health and Human Services. Requires a tribal organization which has entered into such contracts with the Secretary of Health and Human Services to be treated as an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services for purposes of the Federal Tort Claims Act with respect to a tort arising out of the performance of such contracts. Extends the eligibility period with respect to the retention of specified Federal benefits by employees who leave Federal employment to be employed by a tribal organization. Provides, upon the request of a tribe, for the waiver of Federal contracting laws with respect to contracts entered into under this Act, unless declined under specified criteria. Allows the appropriate Secretary to transfer title to personal property found to be in excess of the needs of the Bureau of Indian Affairs or Indian Health Service to an Indian tribe that has received a contract or grant with respect to the provision of educational or health care facility programs. Sets forth specified requirements with respect to contracts entered into under this Act. Requires the appropriate Secretary to provide a supplemental report to the Congress on or before June 15 of each year identifying any deficiency of funds needed to provide contract support costs to contractors. Requires the appropriate Secretary, in order to meet tribal requests, to designate an official of the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Indian Health Service to supervise the review of contracts by such agencies. Requires the appropriate Secretary to designate officials who are not employed by the Bureau or the Service to conduct hearings in contract declination appeals. Sets forth specified provisions with respect to indirect costs on contracts negotiated between a tribe or tribal organization and a Federal agency. Provides that funds obligated under this Act but not expended may be expended during the next succeeding fiscal year. Requires contracts entered into pursuant to this Act to be subject to the Contract Disputes Act of 1978.

Secondary School Basic Skills Act

United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1987

Secondary School Basic Skills Act - Establishes a program of grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) having especially high concentrations of children from low-income families to enable such agencies to provide more effective instruction in basic skills for economically disadvantaged secondary school students. Defines "basic skills" (to include reading, communications, writing, and mathematics proficiency, as well as problem-solving, comprehension, and reasoning.) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1993. Makes certain amounts of such appropriations available for specified activities and types of grants under this Act. Makes a secondary school eligible to receive assistance under this Act for program grants only if 20 percent or more of children aged 12 to 17, inclusive, who are enrolled in such school: (1) are counted under LEA basic grant provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as modified by the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 (ECIA); or (2) qualify for a free school lunch under the National School Lunch Act of 1946. Requires that funds made available under this Act for program grants be used to develop new approaches to and carry out educational services and activities designed specifically to raise the basic skills of low-achieving students attending eligible secondary schools. Authorizes the Secretary of Education, from specified funds appropriated for program grants for FY 1988 through 1993, to make grants to enable eligible secondary schools to develop, implement, and carry out new approaches to achieving improved basic skills instruction of low-achieving students attending eligible secondary schools. Requires that the grant application be made on behalf of the eligible secondary school by: (1) the LEA; or (2) an institution of higher education, public agency, or private nonprofit organization if such entity will provide educational services or conduct educational activities subject to the proposal. Requires applicants to assure their participation in a national evaluation. Requires that administrators, teachers, and parents in the eligible school participate in the preparation of the proposal. Requires that the appropriate State educational agency (SEA) be provided on opportunity to review and comment on the application before submittal to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to assure that eligible applicants represent various geographic regions of the country, including both rural and urban secondary schools within those various geographic regions. Requires each LEA which desires to receive program grants under this Act to file with the Secretary an application containing specified assurances. Allows any eligible applicant organization to apply for a five-year grant, subject to specified restrictions, on behalf of an eligible secondary school. Sets forth requirements for such applications. Requires consultation with parents and teachers of low-achieving students in eligible secondary schools in program design and implementation. Directs the Secretary to conduct a national evaluation of the effectiveness and the implementation of program grants. Requires that such assessment results be submitted to Congress and disseminated to SEAs, LEAs, State legislatures, and Governors. Directs the Secretary to monitor grants and coordinate activities under this Act with other research activities conducted by and through the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. Directs the Secretary, once program grants are awarded, to provide eligible recipients with technical assistance. Prohibits the Secretary from disapproving an LEA application without affording notice and opportunity for a hearing. Directs the Secretary to make payments as expeditiously as possible after approval of applications. Prohibits any grant from being made with respect to any eligible secondary school for more than two academic years unless there is: (1) an improved performance of the targeted secondary school students at the school on a nationally normed basic skills test; or (2) a decrease in the dropout rate at the school. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations relating to such requirement. Authorizes the Secretary to grant a waiver of such requirement for one additional academic year of programming if external conditions warrant.

Technology Education Act of 1986

United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1987

Technology Education Act of 1986 - Defines "technology education" as a comprehensive educational process designed to develop a population that is knowledgeable about technology and its evolution, systems, techniques, utilization in industry and other fields, and social and cultural significance. Directs the Secretary of Education, subject to the availability of appropriations under this Act, to establish a program of grants to local educational agencies (LEAs), State educational agencies (SEAs), consortia of public and private agencies, organizations, and institutions, and institutions of higher education for not more than ten demonstration programs in technology education for secondary schools. Sets forth grant application requirements. Directs the Secretary to consider equitable geographic distribution in making such grants. Permits such grants to be used to develop a model demonstration program for technology education with specified components. Includes among such components research and development of curriculum materials, an institute to develop teacher capabilities in technology education, and multidisciplinary teacher workshops for interfacing mathematics, science, and technology education. Limits the Federal share to 65 percent of the costs of programs or projects assisted under this Act. Requires that at least ten percent of such costs be covered by private sector contributions. Directs the Secretary to disseminate the results of such programs or projects so as to improve the training of educational personnel. Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 to direct the Secretary to make available specified amounts of discretionary funds to carry out this Act for FY 1987 through 1989.

A concurrent resolution to express the sense of Congress that funding for the vocational education program should not be eliminated.

United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1987

Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Federal Government should maintain its role in vocational education through the continued provision of vocational education grants to the States; and (2) the proposal to eliminate Federal funding for vocational education should be rejected.

United States-Mexico Border Health Education and Training Act of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1987

United States - Mexico Border Health Education and Training Act of 1987 - 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 1988 through 1990.

Family Education Assistance Act of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1987

Family Education Assistance Act of 1987 - 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 a child of the taxpayer, of a child of a brother, sister, stepbrother, or stepsister of the taxpayer, of an individual for whom the taxpayer has been appointed as guardian, or of a descendant of a child of the taxpayer. Limits the amount of such deduction to $1,500 (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. Disallows any deduction for contributions to an education savings account for any beneficiary who has attained the age of 19. Requires any balance in an education savings account to be distributed after the individual for whose benefit the account is established attains age 30. Includes the distributions from an education savings account in the gross income of the payee or distributee except for those amounts distributed or used to pay educational expenses incurred by the individual for whose benefit the account is established. 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. Imposes: (1) a six percent excise tax on excess contributions to an education savings account; and (2) a five percent excise tax on amounts connected with any prohibited transaction with respect to such an account. Excludes from the gross income of an individual distributions from an education savings account used exclusively for that individual's educational expenses. 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.

A bill to improve the education status of Native Hawaiians, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 11 February 1987

Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to specified State schools in Hawaii in order to implement the Kamehameha Elementary Education Program (KEEP). Requires the Secretary, by no later than the school year 1992-1993, to assure that the State of Hawaii (Department of Education) has implemented the KEEP model program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988, and such sums as necessary for FY 1989 through 1993. Directs the Secretary to make grants to Native Hawaiian Organizations to develop and operate a minimum of eleven Family-Based Education Centers in Hawaii with prenatal and preschool programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988, and such sums as necessary for FY 1989 through 1993. Requires the Secretary to make grants to the Kamehameha Schools/Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate for a demonstration program to provide Higher Education Fellowship assistance to Native Hawaiian students, including students in post-bachelor degree programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1993. Directs the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with the State of Hawaii, including its junior or community colleges, and/or the Kamehameha Schools/Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate for demonstration projects designed to address the special needs of Native Hawaiian gifted and talented elementary and secondary school students. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1993. Requires the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with the State of Hawaii and/or Native Hawaiian Organizations to operate projects to address the special needs of Native Hawaiian students. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1993. Sets forth specified grant and contract requirements.

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a charitable contribution deduction for certain amounts paid to or for the benefit of an institution of higher education.

United States · United States Congress · 11 February 1987

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a charitable contribution income tax deduction for amounts paid to or for the benefit of an institution of higher education in cases where the taxpayer receives the right to seating or the right to purchase seating for athletic events at such institution.

A resolution providing amounts from the contingent fund of the House for expenses of investigations and studies by the Committee on Education and Labor in the first session of the One Hundredth Congress.

United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1987

Authorizes expenditures by the House Committee on Education and Labor for the first session of the 100th Congress, including the procurement of consultant services and assistance for specialized training for its professional staff.

A bill to increase the authorization of appropriation for the Magnet School program for fiscal year 1987 to meet the growing needs of existing Magnet School programs, and for the establishment of new Magnet School programs.

United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1987

Amends the Education for Economic Security Act to increase and extend the authorization of appropriations for the Magnet Schools Assistance Program through FY 1989.

Education for Economic Security Amendments of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1987

Education for Economic Security Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Education for Economic Security Act to rename title II as the "Christa McAuliffe Teacher Training and Improvement Act." Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992 for such title. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to reserve up to 20 percent of such funds for national programs. Directs the Secretary to reserve: (1) one half of one percent for projects and activities in specified territories and possessions of the U.S.; and (2) one half of one percent for projects and activities for Indian children in Department of the Interior schools. Directs the Secretary to allot the remainder among States on the basis of the number of children aged five to 17. Provides for reallotment under specified conditions. Sets forth provisions for programs for Indian children. Sets forth provisions for State and local projects. Requires eligible recipients (i.e., a local educational agency, institution of higher education, cultural institution, professional association, or other capable public or private agency) to submit applications to the State educational agency. Directs the State agency to use for State projects that portion of its allotment that is not distributed to eligible recipients or used for State administration. Requires such state and local project funds to be used for: (1) inservice education for teachers; (2) inservice education for school administrators; (3) retraining teachers who wish to teach different subjects; (4) programs, including scholarships and internships, for qualified persons in business and the professions who wish to become teachers or school administrators but who lack coursework in education; (5) preservice education of teachers and school administrators; (6) improved teacher education programs; (7) fellowships and opportunities for writing and research for teachers and school administrators; and (8) programs for exchange of professional personnel between education and other fields. Sets forth provisions for the participation of private nonprofit school teachers and administrators. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out research, development, evaluation, demonstration, dissemination, and data collection activities which are of national significance. Requires that Federal funds be used to supplement, not supplant, non-Federal funds. Repeals specified provisions of the Education Amendments of 1978 and the Higher Education Act of 1965.

Teacher Skills Enhancement Act

United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1987

Teacher Skills Enhancement Act - Amends title V (Teacher Corps and Teacher Training Programs) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to add a Teacher Skills Enhancement Program. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make demonstration grants to States to pay the Federal share of the costs of school-based skills enhancement model programs designed to serve all elementary and secondary school teachers and administrators responsible for instructional leadership in a local educational agency on a system-wide basis. Directs the Secretary to assure that such grants are distributed among the States on the basis of population and geographic characteristics. Directs the Secretary to take into consideration the degree to which the State application was developed through consultation with teachers, administrators, teacher union representatives (where applicable), local educational agency personnel, faculty from institutions of higher education, and the educational regional resource center (where appropriate) serving the State. Sets forth requirements for State plans and for local applications. Sets forth the Federal and nonfederal share of the costs of such programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1993.

Special Educational Needs Act of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987

Special Educational Needs Act of 1987 - Chapter 1: Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Children - Replaces chapter 1 (Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Disadvantaged Children) of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 and title I (Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Children) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Provides for assistance to improve the educational opportunities of educationally deprived children. Part A: Basic Programs Operated by Local Education Agencies - Subpart 1: Allocations - Directs the Secretary of Education to determine criteria for allocation of basic grants to territories. Sets forth a special formula for Puerto Rico. Sets forth a formula for allocation of basic grants to local educational agencies on the basis of number of children in specified categories to be counted and the average per pupil expenditure (within limits) in a State. Provides that the categories of children to be counted are as follows: (1) number of children aged five to 17, inclusive, in the school district from families below the poverty level; (2) number of such children from families above the poverty level; and (3) number of such children living in institutions for neglected or delinquent children, or being supported in foster homes with public funds. Sets forth provisions for a program for Indian children. Directs the Secretary to make payments to State educational agencies for grants made on the basis of entitlements created under such basic grants provisons during the period of FY 1988 through 1993. Provides for additional grants for local education agencies in counties with especially high concentrations of children from low-income families. Reserves specified funds for such purpose. Subpart 2: Basic Program Requirements - Requires local educational agencies to use funds received under this chapter only for programs and projects designed to meet the special educational needs of educationally deprived children. Sets forth authorized uses of such funds. Sets forth provisions for innovation projects and for program improvement. Sets forth local educational agency application requirements. States that eligible school attendance areas are those having high concentrations of children from low-income families. Sets forth procedures for designation of such areas. Requires a local educational agency to use funds received under this chapter for educationally deprived children identified as having the greatest need for special assistance. Sets forth provisions for assessment of educational need. Provides for continued eligibility during the same school year for educationally deprived children who transfer to ineligible areas or schools. Permits local educational agencies to skip eligible children who are receiving services of the same nature and scope from non-Federal sources. Provides for eligibility of children of limited English proficiency and handicapped children under specified conditions. Provides that a child who was previously identified as being in greatest need of assistance but is no longer, and who continues to be educationally deprived, may participate in the program for two additional years. Provides for eligibility for children transferred from a State operated program for neglected and delinquent children. Permits the local education agency to carry out a schoolwide project to upgrade the entire educational program of a school in the case of any school serving an eligible attendance area in which not less than 75 percent of the children are from low-income families. Sets forth requirements for designation of such schools, approval of the plan, operation of the project, and use of funds. Sets forth accountability provisions for continuation of such schoolwide project. Sets forth provisions for parental involvement. Sets forth provisions for participation of children enrolled in private schools. Sets forth various fiscal requirements, including maintenance of effort. Requires that Federal funds supplement, not supplant, regular non-Federal funds. Permits a local educational agency to receive funds under this chapter only if State and local funds will be used in the district of such agency to provide services in project areas which, taken as a whole, are at least comparable to services being provided in areas in such district which are not receiving such funds. Permits exclusion of certain special State and local program funds for purposes of such requirements. Prohibits any State from taking into consideration payments under this chapter in determining the eligibility of any local educational agency for State aid, or the amount of State aid, with respect to free public education of children. Requires local and State evaluations of chapter 1 programs. Requires schools which show a decline in achievement of children served under this chapter in any two consecutive years to submit a detailed plan of improvement to the local educational agency. Requires the local educational agency to: (1) review such plan and provide technical assistance for program improvement at such school; and (2) if achievement continues to decline for two additional years, notify the State educational agency which shall then provide technical assistance for program improvement. Part B: Even Start Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies - Provides for grants to integrate early childhood education and adult education for parents. Provides, within specified limits, that such grants shall be made to each State in the same proportion as grants are allocated under part A. Reserves a specified amount for migrant programs. Provides that funds made available to local educational agencies under this part shall be used to provide family-centered education programs to help parents become full partners in the education of their children and to assist children in reaching their full potential as learners. Sets forth program elements. Provides that funds under this part may be used for not more than 80 percent of the total cost of the program in the first year of funding, 60 percent in the second year, 40 percent in the third year, and 20 percent in the fourth and any subsequent year. Provides that additional funds may be obtained from any available source, including part A of this chapter. Makes eligible for participation in this program families that include: (1) a parent who is eligible for participation in an adult basic education program under the Adult Education Act; and (2) a child aged one to seven, inclusive, who resides in a school attendance area designated for participation in part A programs. Set forth local application requirements. Requires each State educational agency to appoint a review panel that will award grants on the basis of proposals which meet specified criteria. Provides that grants may be awarded for up to four years. Requires the Secretary to: (1) provide for the annual independent evaluation of programs under this part; and (2) submit to the Congress an annual review and summary of the results of such evaluations. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1993 for purposes of this part. Part C: Secondary School Programs for Basic Skills Improvement and Dropout Prevention - Provides for grants to States for local educational agencies with high concentrations of low-income children to improve the achievement of educationally deprived children and potential dropouts enrolled in secondary schools and such children who have already dropped out of school. Provides, within limits, that such grants will be made to each State in the same proportion as grants to States are allocated under part A. Provides that only local educational agencies in counties which meet certain requirements with respect to concentrations of low-income children shall be eligible to receive grants under this part. Sets forth authorized uses of funds under this part. Makes eligible for program participation secondary school students who meet part A requirements as educationally deprived children having the greatest need for special assistance, and students who are dropouts or potential dropouts. Sets forth local application requirements and the selection process for award of grants. Provides that such grants may be awarded for up to three years. Requires such programs to meet certain fiscal and evaluation requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1993 for purposes of this part. Part D: Programs Operated by State Agencies - Subpart 1: Programs for Migratory Children - Entitles a State educational agency or a combination of such agencies, upon application, to receive a grant for any fiscal year under this part to establish or improve, either directly or through local educational agencies, programs of education for children of migratory agricultural workers or migratory fishermen. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of such grants on the basis of average per pupil expenditure and numbers of full-time and part-time residents who are migratory children aged three to 21, inclusive. Sets forth a special formula for Puerto Rico. Sets forth program requirements for approval of applications. Sets forth a provision for by-passing a State under certain conditions. Sets forth provisions for coordination of migrant education activities. Reserves specified funds for such purpose. Subpart 2: Programs for Handicapped Children - Makes a State agency which is directly responsible for providing free public education for handicapped children eligible to receive a grant under this subpart for any fiscal year. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of such grant based on average per pupil expenditure and the number of handicapped children operated or supported by the State agency, including schools providing special education for handicapped children under contract or other arrangement with the State agency. Sets forth a special formula for Puerto Rico. Provides for the counting of children transferring from State to local programs under specified conditions. Sets forth program requirements. Subpart 3: Programs for Neglected and Delinquent Children - Entitles a State agency which is directly responsible for providing free public education for children in institutions for neglected or delinquent children or in adult correctional institutions to receive a grant under this subpart for any fiscal year. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of such grant based on average per pupil expenditure and the number of such neglected or delinquent children in average daily attendance at schools for such children operated or supported by the State agency, including schools providing education for such children under contract or other arrangement with such agency. Sets forth a special formula for Puerto Rico. Sets forth program requirements. Makes such grants available for projects up to three years. Requires annual program evaluations. Reserves specified amounts for transition services. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to State and local educational agencies to support projects to facilitate the transition of children from State-operated institutions for neglected and delinquent children into locally operated programs and into a regular school program. Requires that such grants be used to provide special educational services for such children in schools other than State-operated institutions. Subpart 4: General Provision for State-Operated Programs - Authorizes appropriations for each fiscal year for purposes of each of subparts 1, 2, and 3 of this part, in an amount equal to not more than one percent of the amount appropriated for such year for such subparts for payments to specified territories of the United States. Part E: Payments - Sets forth payment methods for this chapter. Sets forth the amount of payments to local education agencies. Provides for adjustments in allocations to States where necessitated by the amount of appropriations. Provides for payments for State administration. Sets a limitation on grants to Puerto Rico under this chapter. Provides that no entitlement authority or authority to enter into grants, contracts, or other financial assistance agreements under this chapter shall be effective except to the extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriation Acts. Part F: General Provisions - Subpart 1: Federal Administration - Authorizes the Secretary to issue necessary regulations. Provides that programs under this chapter may not be required to follow anyone instructional model. Requires that proposed regulations be reviewed by regional panels of Federal, State, and local administrators. Sets forth provisions for the availability of appropriations. Sets forth provisions for the withholding of payments to States. Provides for judicial review of such withholding. Directs the Secretary to develop national standards for local evaluation of programs under this chapter. Directs the Secretary to report biennially to the appropriate congressional committees on State and local evaluation results based on specified data. Directs the Secretary to conduct a national longitudinal study of eligible children participating in programs under this chapter. Requires a follow-up of the initial survey. Requires a final report on the study to be submitted to the appropriate congressional committees by January 1, 1997, and an interim report by January 1, 1993. Directs the Secretary to prepare and distribute a policy manual for this chapter. Directs the Secretary to respond within 30 days to inquiries of State or local educational agencies with respect to this chapter. Directs the Secretary to continue, establish, and expend technical assistance centers to provide assistance to State and local educational agencies with respect to programs under this chapter. Provides for Federal dissemination of exemplary programs through the National Diffusion Network. Directs the Secretary to provide for review of State and local administration of programs under this chapter. Authorizes the Secretary to make small grants for applied research on promising educational models for serving educationally deprived children under this chapter. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1993 for Federal evaluation, technical assistance, and research activities related to this chapter and for authorized studies. Subpart 2: State Administration - Sets forth provisions relating to State rulemaking. Directs each State educational agency to keep such records and provide such information to the Secretary as may be required for fiscal audit and program evaluation. Provides that, under certain conditions, public school personnel paid entirely by funds made available under this chapter may be assigned limited supervisory duties. Subpart 3: Definitions - Sets forth definitions for purposes of this chapter. Chapter 2: Miscellaneous Provisions - Repeals chapter 1 (Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Disadvantaged Children) of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 and title I (Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Children) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Sets forth transition provisions.

Excellence in Minority Health Education and Care Act

United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987

Excellence in Minority Health Education and Care Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to empower the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to: (1) Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee; (2) Xavier University College of Pharmacy, New Orleans, Louisiana; (3) Tuskegee University School of Veterinary Medicine, Tuskegee, Alabama; and (4) Meharry College of Dentistry, Nashville, Tennessee. Requires each institution to use such grants to establish, in the pertinent health care discipline, a Center of Excellence, which shall: (1) improve the recruitment of minority students and high calibre minority faculty to the institution; (2) develop effective techniques for training minorities who will serve minority populations; and (3) establish scholarship programs to attract promising individuals to the Center's programs. Sets forth additional uses for the grants to the institutions, to include: (1) maintenance of a communications network to disseminate information concerning health promotion among minorities; (2) development of patient educational materials tailored to the needs of minority populations; (3) establishment of a research program focusing on the needs of minority women and teenagers; (4) study of alternative models for health care delivery systems; and (5) consultation and assistance by the recipient institutions to other medical schools to aid the latter in effecting more productive education and service programs for minority populations. Enumerates specific grant projects appropriate to the subject matter expertise of each of the four institutions eligible to receive the grants. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1991.

A bill to provide an experience of life in the United States to children from areas affected by civil strife in Ireland by permitting the use of education block grant funds.

United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987

Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 to permit the use of education block grant funds for projects for Irish children. Requires that such projects provide an opportunity to live in the United States to children aged ten through 18 from areas of Ireland that have been torn by civil strife and violence. Requires that such opportunity include attendance in U.S. schools and affiliation with children of diverse religious, ethnic, cultural, and social backgrounds in a peaceful atmosphere. Permits such funds to be used for such projects if the local educational agency concerned files with the Secretary of Education a plan containing assurances that at least one-half of the cost of such projects will be provided from private donations and that project funds will be used to pay a portion of the cost of such children's round-trip transportation, U.S. schooling, and other living expenses.

Family Education Assistance Act of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987

Family Education Assistance Act of 1987 - 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 a child of the taxpayer, of a child of a brother, sister, stepbrother, or stepsister of the taxpayer, of an individual for whom the taxpayer has been appointed as guardian, or of a descendant of a child of the taxpayer. Limits the amount of such deduction to $1,500 (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. Disallows any deduction for contributions to an education savings account for any beneficiary who has attained the age of 19. Requires any balance in an education savings account to be distributed after the individual for whose benefit the account is established attains age 30. Includes the distributions from an education savings account in the gross income of the payee or distributee except for those amounts distributed or used to pay educational expenses incurred by the individual for whose benefit the account is established. 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. Imposes: (1) a six percent excise tax on excess contributions to an education savings account; and (2) a five percent excise tax on amounts connected with any prohibited transaction with respect to such an account. Excludes from the gross income of an individual distributions from an education savings account used exclusively for that individual's educational expenses. 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.

A joint resolution to designate October 3, 1987, as "National Urban Higher Education Day".

United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987

Designates October 3, 1987, as National Urban Higher Education Day.

Family Caregivers Advocacy, Resource, and Education Demonstration Program Act of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1987

Family Caregivers Advocacy, Resource, and Education Demonstration Program Act of 1987 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Assistant Secretary for Human Development Services, to make grants to States to support Family Caregivers Advocacy, Resource, and Education (Family CARE) demonstration programs. Requires such a program to provide and coordinate, throughout the State, advocacy, education, information dissemination, and referral services for elderly and disabled individuals and members of their families who care for them. Specifies other requirements of such a program. Sets forth application requirements for a grant. Requires the Secretary to make grants for FY 1988 within six months after enactment of this Act. Sets the term of a grant at one year, renewable for two more consecutive one-year periods. Requires the Secretary to make grants to between five and eight States, assuring appropriate distribution among different geographic areas and urban and rural populations. Requires each State receiving a grant to provide for the evaluation of its program. Requires the Secretary to submit interim and final reports to the Congress on grant activities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990.

A resolution providing amounts from the contingent fund of the House for expenses of investigations and studies by the Subcommittee on Labor Management Relations of the Committee on Education and Labor in the first session of the One Hundredth Congress.

United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1987

Authorizes expenditures by the Subcommittee on Labor Management Relations of the House Committee on Education and Labor for the first session of the 100th Congress, including the procurement of consultant services.

A resolution providing amounts from the contingent fund of the House for expenses of investigations and studies by the Committee on Education and Labor in the first session of the One Hundredth Congress.

United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1987

Authorizes expenditures by the House Committee on Education and Labor for the first session of the 100th Congress, including the procurement of consultant services and assistance for specialized training for its professional staff.

A bill to rescind budget authority for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement for libraries (rescission numbered R87-34) proposed to be rescinded in a special message transmitted to the Congress by the President of January 5, 1987, in accordance with section 1012 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1987

Rescinds budget authority for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement for libraries (R87-34).

A bill to rescind budget authority for the office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services for rehabilitation services and handicapped research (rescission numbered R87-30) proposed to be rescinded in a special message transmitted to the Congress by the President on January 5, 1987, in accordance with section 1012 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1987

Rescinds budget authority for the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services for rehabilitation services and handicapped research (R87-30).

A bill to rescind budget authority for the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education for impact aid (rescission numbered R87-26) proposed to be rescinded in a special message transmitted to the Congress by the President on January 5, 1987, in accordance with section 1012 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1987

Rescinds budget authority for the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education for impact aid (R87-26).

A bill to rescind budget authority for the Office of Postsecondary Education for higher education (rescission numbered R87-33) proposed to be rescinded in a special message transmitted to the Congress by the President on January 5, 1987, in accordance with section 1012 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1987

Rescinds budget authority for the Office of Postsecondary Education for higher education (R87-33).

A bill to rescind budget authority for the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services for education for the handicapped (rescission numbered R87-29) proposed to be rescinded in a special message transmitted to the Congress by the President on January 5, 1987, in accordance with section 1012 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1987

Rescinds budget authority for the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services for education for the handicapped (R87-29).

A bill to rescind budget authority for the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education for compensatory education for the disadvantaged (rescission numbered R87-25) proposed to be rescinded in a special message transmitted to the Congress by the President on January 5, 1987, in accordance with section 1012 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1987

Rescinds budget authority for the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education for compensatory education for the disadvantaged (R87-25).

A bill to rescind budget authority for the Office of Vocational and Adult Education for vocational and adult education (rescission numbered R87-31) proposed to be rescinded in a special message transmitted to the Congress by the President on January 5, 1987, in accordance with section 1012 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1987

Rescinds budget authority for the Office of Vocational and Adult Education for vocational and adult education (R87-31).

A bill to rescind budget authority for the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education for special programs transmitted to the Congress by the President on January 5, 1987, in accordance with section 1012 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1987

Rescinds budget authority for the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education for special programs (R87-27).

A bill to rescind budget authority for the Office of Postsecondary Education for student financial assistance (rescission numbered R87-32) proposed to be rescinded in a special message transmitted to the Congress by the President on January 5, 1987, in accordance with section 1012 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1987

Rescinds budget authority for the Office of Postsecondary Education for student financial assistance (R87-32).

A bill to rescind budget authority for the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs for bilingual education (rescission numbered R87-28) proposed to be rescinded in a special message transmitted to the Congress by the President on January 5, 1987, in accordance with section 1012 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1987

Rescinds budget authority for the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs for bilingual education (R87-28).

Family Education Assistance Act of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1987

Family Education Assistance Act of 1987 - 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 a child of the taxpayer, of a child of a brother, sister, stepbrother, or stepsister of the taxpayer, of an individual for whom the taxpayer has been appointed as guardian, or of a descendant of a child of the taxpayer. Limits the amount of such deduction to $1,500 (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. Disallows any deduction for contributions to an education savings account for any beneficiary who has attained the age of 19. Requires any balance in an education savings account to be distributed after the individual for whose benefit the account is established attains age 30. Includes the distributions from an education savings account in the gross income of the payee or distributee except for those amounts distributed or used to pay educational expenses incurred by the individual for whose benefit the account is established. 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. Imposes: (1) a six percent excise tax on excess contributions to an education savings account; and (2) a five percent excise tax on amounts connected with any prohibited transaction with respect to such an account. Excludes from the gross income of an individual distributions from an education savings account used exclusively for that individual's educational expenses. 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.