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Bill· SS. 2366 (101st)referred

Parents as Teachers: the Family Involvement in Education Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990

Parents as Teachers: the Family Involvement in Education Act of 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make grants to States for parents as teachers programs. Makes eligible for such a grant any State which operates a parents as teachers program associated with the Parents as Teachers National Center in Missouri. Sets forth program requirements, limiting services to families during the period from the last three months of a mother's pregnancy to the child's attaining age three. Prohibits requiring any person to participate in any program of parent education or developmental screening, or any program for developmentally delayed children. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a Parents as Teachers National Center for information dissemination and technical and training assistance for States with such programs; and (2) evaluate such programs within four years. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· HRH.R. 4437 (101st)referred

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain distributions used to pay expenses of higher education from the additonal tax on early distributions from qualified retirement plans.

United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt qualified higher education expenses from the ten percent penalty tax on early distributions from qualified retirement plans.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 535 (101st)referred

Designating September 13, 1990, as "National D.A.R.E. Day".

United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990

Designates September 13, 1990, as National DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Day.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 294 (101st)referred

To express the sense of the Congress regarding a national agenda for extending and improving foreign language instruction in the elementary schools of the Nation.

United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990

Expresses the sense of the Congress that foreign language instruction should begin at the elementary school level. Urges State and local educational agencies to initiate programs of foreign language instruction in elementary schools. Supports the statements of: (1) the National Governors' Association calling for such programs; and (2) the Follow-Up Committee to the Wingspread Consultation on Elementary School Foreign Languages, calling for establishment of a Blue Ribbon Commission to address the national agenda for foreign language instruction in elementary schools.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 368 (101st)passed

Providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 3) to authorize appropriations to expand Head Start programs and programs carried out under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to include child care services, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1990

Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 3 (education and child care programs).

Bill· HRH.R. 4381 (101st)open

Early Childhood Education and Development Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1990

Early Childhood Education and Development Act of 1990 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 to carry out this Act. Allocates aggregate funding for this Act as follows: (1) 47 percent for developmentally appropriate child care services under the Head Start Act, as amended by title I of this Act; (2) 33 percent for early childhood development and school-related child care under ESEA title VIII, as added by title II of this Act; and (3) 20 percent for the Child Care Quality Improvement Act, as added by title IV of this Act. Title I: Expanded Head Start - Amends the Head Start Act to provide for child care services throughout the year for children who participate or are eligible to participate in Head Start programs. Authorizes Head Start programs to provide developmentally appropriate child care services. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to reserve specified amounts of funding under this title for child care services in Indian, migrant, and territorial Head Start programs. Authorizes Head Start programs to use funds under this Act (if the parents are working or attending a job training or educational program) for: (1) full-working-day (at least ten hours) child care services throughout the year to children participating in Head Start programs; and (2) part-day and full-working-day child care services throughout the year to children eligible to participate in Head Start programs. Allows the use of up to 20 percent of such funds to provide Head Start services to children: (1) who are otherwise ineligible under specified provisions; (2) whose family income is greater than the poverty line but less than 125 percent of the lower living standard income level (LLSIL); and (3) whose parents are working or attending a job training or educational program. (But allows such use of funds only if developmentally appropriate child care services are provided to all eligible children whose parents request such services.) Requires payment of sliding scale fees for a portion of such services from parents whose income exceeds the LLSIL or whose children receive such services under the expanded eligibility provisions. Title II: Early Childhood Development and School-Related Child Care - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to establish a new title VIII program of grants to States for early childhood development and school-related child care. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary for purposes of this title) to make grants to States for expansion or establishment of before- and after-school child care or early child development programs. Reserves a specified portion of funds for payments to territories and to the Secretary of the Interior to meet the needs of Indian children. Sets forth a formula for distribution of funds to LEAs and to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Sets forth local program requirements, including submission of an application with a two-year plan. Sets forth authorized uses of funds, uses of parental contributions, and provisions for for coordination with other providers within the LEA. Allows LEAs to contract out such programs through grants or contracts with other public entities and private nonprofit community-based organizations. Requires such private organizations to ensure: (1) enrollment of children from diverse racial, ethnic, linguistic, and economic backgrounds and children with disabilities; (2) compliance with Head Start Act nondiscrimination provisions; and (3) other LEA requirements. Prohibits any provider of a program receiving assistance under this title from engaging in any sectarian activity, including sectarian worship and instruction, in such program. Sets forth requirements for State participation in the program under this title. Requires States, within three years after enactment, to establish standards for programs receiving assistance under this title, including standards for: (1) in the case of both types of programs, health, nutrition, and safety for children and staff, and parental involvement; (2) in the case of early childhood development programs, group size, child-staff ratios, and qualifications and backgrounds of staff members; and (3) in the case of before- and after-school child care programs, inservice training for staff. Limits State administrative cost reimbursement to not more than three percent of program payments. Requires States to establish and periodically revise a sliding fee scale for program cost-sharing for children of families with income of more than the poverty level but not more than 160 percent of the LLSIL. Requires the State education agency to distribute at least 97 percent of program payments from the Secretary to eligible LEAs. Title III: Child Care - Amends title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services) of the Social Security Act to add a new subtitle B, Grants to States for Child Care. Extends the authorization of appropriations for title XX grants to States for social services through FY 1994 and succeeding fiscal years. Sets aside additional amounts for grants to States for child care for FY 1991 through 1994 and succeeding fiscal years. Entitles each State to such child care grants for the first three years after enactment, but makes a State ineligible for any further payments unless it demonstrates that all child care providers in the State who receive title XX funds and all other providers in the State who receive public funds for child care services are: (1) licensed or regulated as required by State or local law; (2) in compliance with the minimum child care standards established by the State in accordance with this Act; and (3) subject to specified enforcement provisions in this Act. Declares that such eligibility requirements shall not be construed to require the training or licensing of any individual who provides child care solely to members of the family of the individual. Requires that use of such payments be administered by the State agency with primary responsibility for child care. Prohibits financial assistance under such subtitle B Grants to States for Child Care from being used for: (1) any sectarian purpose or activity, including sectarian worship and instruction except where the provider receives funds resulting from distribution of a child care certificate to a parent, or the provider provides child care solely to members of his or her own family; and (2) with regard to services to students in grades one through 12, any services during the regular school day, or for which academic credit is given toward graduation, or which supplant or duplicate a public or private school academic program. States that financial assistance under subtitle B constitutes Federal financial assistance for purposes of various civil rights and nondiscrimination laws. Prohibits a child care provider that receives assistance under subtitle B from discriminating: (1) against any child on the basis of religion in providing child care services; or (2) in employment on the basis of the religion of the prospective employee if such employee's primary responsibility is or will be working directly with children in the provision of child services. Makes exceptions with respect to non-funded child care slots, two or more qualified applicants for employment, and present employees. Requires specific assurances of such religious nondiscrimination in the case of providers receiving 80 percent or more of their operating budget from assistance under subtitle B. Provides for the severability of such religious nondiscrimination provisions. Declares that nothing in subtitle B shall be construed to supersede or modify any provision of a State constitution or State law that prohibits the expenditure of public funds in or by sectarian institutions. Requires each State receiving subtitle B funds to design and carry out its child care services program so as to maximize parental choice. Authorizes such States to provide child care services pursuant to subtitle B: (1) directly; (2) through child care providers, by using grants, purchase of service contracts, or issuing child care certificates; or (3) through such other arrangements as the State agency deems appropriate. Requires such States, within two years, to offer a child care certificate program under which each parent or legal guardian receiving subtitle B assistance shall have the option of receiving it in the form of a child care certificate which may be used with any eligible child care provider. Requires States to use 90 percent of such payments for child care services and ten percent for administration, training, and enforcement. Prohibits their use for any child care services which do not meet all applicable standards and licensing and registration requirements: (1) during the first three-year period, as these are established under State and local law; and (2) after such period, as these are established by State and local law pursuant to subtitle B provisions. Prohibits use of such payments to supplant any other Federal or State funds for child care services. Requires States receiving such payments to have in effect, beginning three years after enactment of this Act, child care standards in specified categories, with different limits on the types of standards for center-based, family, and group home child care services. Requires States receiving such payments to require, within two years after enactment of subtitle B, completion annually of an average of 15 hours training by all child care providers (and the caregivers they employ) who receive public funds for child care and are required to be licensed or regulated in the State. Requires States receiving such payments to reimburse child care expenses at market rates, with higher reimbursements for infants and toddlers, children with disabilities, and comprehensive child care programs for children of adolescent parents. Requires such States to establish a sliding fee scale based on income for child care services to families, but with no fee requirement for families whose income does not exceed the poverty line. Requires a State receiving such payments to develop policies and procedures ensuring that it will not reduce: (1) the categories of child care providers it licenses or regulates; or (2) the level of standards for child care services, even if they exceed those required under this Act, unless it demonstrates that such reduction is based on positive developmental practice or is necessary to increase access and availability and will not jeopardize health and safety. Requires States receiving such payments to have in effect, within three years, enforcement policies and practices applicable to all child care funded under title XX of the Social Security Act and all child care services delivered by providers who receive public funds for such services. Includes among such required enforcement policies and practices: (1) training and qualifying of inspectors; (2) at least one unannounced inspection annually of each center-based child care provider; (3) unannounced inspections periodically, during normal operating hours, of licensed and regulated family child care providers; (4) sufficient licensing personnel; (5) parental access to their children in child care and information on policies and goals; (6) complaint procedures; (7) employee whistleblower protection; (8) consumer education information; (9) on-premise provider posting of the telephone number of the licensing or regulatory agency; and (10) State recordkeeping of parental complaints, and public availability of information on substantiated complaints. Provides for timing of expenditures. Sets forth a formula for determining child care allotments to States based on specified State shares and child care set asides for FY 1991 through 1994 and succeeding fiscal years. Provides for redistribution of unexpended child care allotments. Requires annual State reports to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary for purposes of this title) on intended uses of child care allotments, and publication of and opportunity for public comment on such reports. Requires annual State reports to the Secretary on the actual use of specified child care allotments under title XX of the Social Security Act. Requires public availability of such reports. Directs the Secretary to submit an annual compilation of such reports to the Congress. Directs the Secretary to establish uniform reporting requirements for States. Requires biennial auditing by States. Adds a new subtitle C, Applicability of Other Law, to title XX of the Social Security Act. Declares that specified provisions for State applications and plans and for a National Advisory Committee on Recommended Child Care Standards, under the Child Care Quality Improvement Act (title IV of this Act), shall not be construed to impose any requirement relating to licensing, training, compliance, enforcement, salaries, recommended standards, or the making of grants or loans, or to authorize the expenditure of any funds, with respect to child care services provided pursuant to title XX of the Social Security Act. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the amount of the advance refundable earned income tax credit, and to adjust such credit for family size, for eligible individuals with one or more children. Provides a supplemental young child credit for taxpayers with a qualifying child under age six. Bases advance payment on the number of qualifying children. Requires employers to collect from employees, at the beginning of employment, signed earned income eligibility certificates or signed statements of ineligibility. Repeals the calendar year limitation on effectiveness of certificates. Coordinates the earned income tax credit with means-tested programs by: (1) treating Federal means-tested transfer payments as support provided by the individual taxpayer, solely for purposes of determining such credit; and (2) disregarding such credit in determining benefits under means-tested programs involving Federal funds. Phases out the dependent care credit and the exclusion for dependent care assistance for taxpayers whose adjusted gross income exceeds specified levels, by certain reductions according to the amount of such excess. Makes the telephone excise tax permanent. Title IV: Child Care Quality Improvement - Child Care Quality Improvement Act - Amends specified Federal law to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary for purposes of this title) to provide financial assistance to eligible States, and to Indian tribes and tribal organizations, to carry out child care quality improvement programs. Reserves specified amounts for U.S. territories and possessions and for programs for Indian children. Sets forth a formula for State allotment based on specified allotment factors involving per capita income and numbers of young children and school lunch program recipients. Requires designation of a State lead agency to administer the program. Sets forth State program application and planning requirements. Requires use of program funds to: (1) assist local resource and referral programs; (2) provide training and related activities; (3) improve monitoring of compliance with and enforcement of licensing and regulation; and (4) improve compensation to child care provider staff. Allows up to five percent of program funds to be used to carry out one or more of the following other activities: (1) low-interest loans to eligible nonprofit or family child care providers to improve existing facilities; (2) grants or low-interest loans to help child care providers meet government standards, with priority to those serving very low-income families; (3) grants to local public libraries (and school libraries, as appropriate) to improve early childhood learning resources and make them available to child care providers and preschool children and their families; (4) if funds are not appropriated for title V of this Act, grants to businesses to meet employee child care needs; and (5) development and implementation of State tax credits and other policies designed to encourage businesses to offer child care assistance. Requires States, within three years, to have in effect specified types of enforcement policies and practices applicable to all licensed or regulated child care providers, including those required to register. Requires States to report biennially to the Secretary on use of funds under this title and to include data on child care needs. Requires State designation and funding of resource and referral agencies to serve specified geographic areas. Requires States to establish training clearinghouses and to provide preservice and inservice training for child care staff and resource and referral staff. Requires that funds under this title, and under titles I and II of this Act, supplement and not supplant other government funds for child care activities. Prohibits any such funds under those provisions of this Act from being used to renovate any facility unless: (1) the child care provider agrees to repay a certain portion of the grant or loan after child care services cease being provided there; or (2) if the provider is a sectarian agency or organization, the renovation or repair is necessary to bring such facility in compliance with such provisions of law. Directs the Secretary to review and monitor State compliance, and to establish procedures to impose specified sanctions in cases of noncompliance. Requires the Secretary to establish a National Advisory Committee on Recommended Child Care Standards to: (1) review Federal policies on child care services and such other data as appropriate; (2) submit to the Secretary proposed recommended standards for child care programs; and (3) develop and make available to lead agencies recommended requirements for resource and referral agencies. Prescribes a procedure for the issuance of such standards. Terminates the Committee 90 days after the Secretary establishes such standards. Title V: Business Involvement in Meeting Employee Child Care Needs - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary for purposes of this title) to establish a program of grants to eligible businesses to: (1) pay start-up costs incurred to provide child care services needed by their employees; or (2) provide additional child care services needed by their employees. Sets forth requirements for applications to be submitted by a business either separately or as a consortium of two or more businesses. Gives priority to businesses with fewer than 100 full-time employees. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 to carry out this title. Title VI: Child Care Standards Improvement Incentive Grant Program and Demonstration Project - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary for purposes of this title) to establish a child care standards improvement incentive grant program to make grants to eligible States to improve their child care standards in specified categories. Sets forth provisions for eligibility, applications, consideration and awarding of initial and subsequent grants, Federal and State shares, authorized uses of grants, and administration. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to not more than ten eligible public agencies and private entities, in urban and rural areas, to administer child development models. Sets forth provisions for applications, evaluations, and reports. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress by April 1, 1993, on the child development models that received such grants. Authorizes appropriations in limited amounts for child care standards improvement incentive grants for FY 1991 through 1998. Requires that two percent of such funds be used for grants for the demonstration projects for child development models.

Bill· HRH.R. 4393 (101st)referred

Nontraditional Students Assistance Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1990

Nontraditional Students Assistance Act of 1990 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to lower from 24 to 22 the age at which an individual is to be considered an independent student, for purposes of student financial assistance in general, as well as for Pell Grants. Makes less-than-half-time students who meet specified requirements eligible for student loans under the guaranteed student loan (GSL) program, as well as for Pell Grants. Makes such students also eligible for grace periods and deferrals with respect to repayment of GSL loans and of loans under the national student direct loan (NDSL) program.

Bill· HRH.R. 4391 (101st)referred

Head Start Quality Assurance Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1990

Head Start Quality Assurance Act of 1990 - Amends the Head Start Act to require that a specified average minimum benefit amount per capita be expended annually to provide services to children who participate in Head Start programs. Specifies such minimum benefit amounts for FY 1991 through 1994 and succeeding fiscal years. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish procedures to ensure such annual average minimum expenditure per child.

Bill· SS. 2334 (101st)referred

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1990

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Act of 1990 - Title I: Low-Input Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a Federal-State matching grant program to create or enhance State sustainable agricultural research, extension, and education programs. Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a National Sustainable Agriculture Advisory Council; and (2) regional administrative councils. Directs the Secretary to develop technical guides for low-input sustainable agricultural production systems. Authorizes a technical guide revision grant program. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: National Training Program in Sustainable Agriculture - Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a national training program in sustainable agriculture for extension agents and other educational and technical information professionals; (2) designate at least two national training centers; and (3) require that at least 20 percent of all Federal Extension Service staff participate in such training. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Extension Service Pesticide Application Advice - Authorizes Federal, State, and county extension services to provide farmers with information about reduced pesticide application rates. Title IV: Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research - Directs the Secretary to establish grants for environmental assessment research regarding the introduction of genetically engineered organisms into the environment. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: Herbicide Resistance Research - Reallocates research funding from programs for the development of herbicide resistant plants to the development of plants adapted to reduced herbicide weed control systems.

Bill· HRH.R. 4379 (101st)referred

Equity and Excellence in Education Implementation Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1990

Equity and Excellence in Education Implementation Act of 1990 - Title I: Early Childhood Education - Declares the Federal Government's responsibility to provide, by 1994, sufficient funding for: (1) improved Head Start programs to serve all eligible three-and four-year-olds and some eligible five-year-olds; and (2) programs affecting the nutritional needs of low-income parents and children to serve all eligible individuals. Declares the Federal Government's responsibility to: (1) expand programs offering simultaneous educational services to children and their parents; and (2) provide training in early childhood development for teachers in kindergarten through third grade to ease the transition to public schools. Part A: Amendments to the Head Start Act - Amends the Head Start Act to authorize appropriations for Head Start programs for FY 1991 through 1994. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue a poverty line each year as a criterion of eligibility for participation in Head Start programs. Part B: Amendment to the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to authorize appropriations for FY 1991 through 1994 for the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Part C: Amendments to the Even Start Program - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to authorize appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993 for the Even Start program. Part D: Child Development Training for Teachers in Primary Grades - Amends ESEA to authorize funding for the training of teachers in kindergarten through third grade in developmentally appropriate practices. Title II: School Completion - Amends ESEA to revise secondary school programs for basic skills improvement and dropout prevention and reentry. Requires State education agencies (SEAs) to reserve ten percent of specified program funds for school dropout prevention and reentry programs conducted by community-based organizations, before allocating such funds among LEAs. Requires LEA (or community-based organization) applications to include plans for programs to increase the secondary school completion rate. Requires States to submit three-year applications before the beginning of 1992, 1995, and 1998. Gives priority, in granting awards to community-based organizations, to those that intend to use such funds for model secondary school community education employment centers to meet the education needs of inner-city, low-income youths. Requires the Secretary of Education (the Secretary for purposes of this Act) to use local and State reports to develop an information base on dropout prevention programs. Provides for funding of: (1) grants to regional laboratories for program coordination and dissemination activities; and (2) the National Diffusion Network to replicate model programs for dropout prevention and reentry. Directs the Secretary to define secondary school completion rate for such program purposes. Amends the School Dropout Demonstration Assistance Act of 1988 (part A of title VI of ESEA) to authorize appropriations for FY 1991 for assistance to address school dropout problems. Amends the General Education Provisions Act to require the National Center for Education Statistics to ensure that nationally uniform data by State are contained in its annual report on the dropout and retention rate. Title III: Student Achievement in Critical Skills - Part A: Special Populations - Declares the Federal Government's responsibility to: (1) provide remedial assistance to all disadvantaged children by 1993; (2) fulfill its 1975 commitment to provide 40 percent of the costs of educating children with disabilities; and (3) reward successful programs in schools with concentrations of disadvantaged children. Subpart 1: Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 - Amends ESEA to revise the declaration of U.S. policy to require expansion of the program for disadvantaged children by increased funding by minimum amounts over baseline for FY 1991 through 1993. National Merit Schools Act - Amends ESEA to establish the National Merit Schools program to recognize and reward public and private elementary and secondary schools that participate in programs for disadvantaged children and have made substantial progress in: (1) raising student educational achievement, especially in reading, writing, and mathematics; (2) creating a safe and alcohol- and drug-free school environment; and (3) reducing the dropout rate. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1993 for such program. Authorizes State educational agencies (SEAs) to designate as a Merit School any public or private elementary or secondary school nominated through procedures established by the SEA. Sets forth requirements for selection criteria established by the Secretary and by SEAs. Provides that each Merit School will be awarded a National Certificate of Merit, as well as funds to further its educational program. Prohibits Federal, State or local reduction of other assistance to a school because it receives such an award. Sets forth requirements for information dissemination and biennial evaluation. Subpart 2: Amendments to the Education of the Handicapped Act - Amends the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA) to declare U.S. policy to increase funding for the grants program for the education of all handicapped children in order to provide to States, for FY 2000 and thereafter, at least 40 percent of the aggregate applicable per pupil expenditures. Authorizes appropriations for such grants program for FY 1991 onward. Part B: Academic Areas of National Importance - Declares the Federal Government's responsibility to: (1) expand foreign language and geography programs of elementary, secondary, and higher education; and (2) equip students with necessary language skills for productive employment in the global marketplace. Amends title VI (International Education Programs) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to provide for study of foreign culture and geography. Allows language resource centers to add specified activities relating to foreign language and culture study. Allows grants for undergraduate programs to be used to develop innovative and model programs in preservice and inservice teacher education in foreign language and culture, geography, and international studies. Specifies permissible uses of grants for summer language institutes. Authorizes specified new research activities for foreign language studies in elementary and secondary schools. Requires centers for international business education to provide language training, translation services, and information about other cultures and markets for nearby small- and medium-sized businesses that seek to enter export markets. Part C: Parental Involvement - Directs the Secretary to report by January 1, 1993, to the Congress on parental involvement and dissemination activities under the General Education Provisions Act. Part D: Regulatory Impact on Student Excellence - Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress annually on the public schools of each State, addressing specified issues. Directs the Secretary to: (1) within 90 days, issue guidance on how Federal funds can be used more flexibly; and (2) within 180 days, conduct regional meetings on such guidance for State and local educational agency officials. Title IV: Mathematics and Science - Part A: Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 - Declares the Federal Government's responsibilities relating to: (1) updating skills of elementary and secondary mathematics and science teachers; (2) information for local educational agencies on updated mathematics and science instructional materials; (3) a program and curricula clearinghouse; and (4) central listing of all sources of Federal assistance to mathematics and science education. Amends the Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Act (part A, title II of ESEA) to specify increasing amounts under the authorization of appropriations for FY 1991 through 1993 for grants to States, and discretionary, national grants for strengthening teacher skills and improving instruction in mathematics and science. Revises such program requirements. Directs the Secretary to report annually on all sources of Federal aid for mathematics and science education. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and agreements to promote the educational use of the space program. Directs the Secretary to award a merit-based competitive grant or contract for a National Clearinghouse for Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education Materials. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to model programs for instruction and training in the use of computers in elementary and secondary mathematics and science curricula. Directs the Secretary to award merit-based competitive grants for such regional science, mathematics, and technology education consortia to disseminate and implement exemplary science, mathematics, and technology education materials, teaching methods, and assessment tools for use by elementary and secondary school students. Requires recipient entities to establish regional boards and conduct program evaluation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1993 for such regional consortia. Part B: Amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Declares the Federal Government's responsibility to award scholarships to high-achieving students to study mathematics, science, and related subjects at postsecondary institutions. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to establish the National Science Scholars Program to recognize student excellence and achievement in the physical, life, and computer sciences, mathematics, and engineering. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993. Authorizes the Secretary to award scholarships to outstanding students selected as National Science Scholars by the President. Directs the Secretary to appoint a panel of experts to recommend academic achievement criteria for use in the nomination of scholars. Sets the Scholarship amount at $10,000 for an academic year with provision for reductions and adjustments. Requires that scholarship recipients, to the extent they are otherwise qualified, be given priority consideration for federally-financed summer employment in research and development centers. Title V: Literacy - Adult Literacy and Employability Act of 1990 - Declares U.S. responsibility to: (1) provide all workers and adults opportunity to acquire skills to function productively; (2) establish programs for large-scale public-private partnerships in workforce literacy; (3) provide for teacher training and instructional technologies to increase the number of learners served and the rate and extent of learning; (4) provide easy access to model program information by teachers, community-based organizations, volunteers, and business; and (5) help build State capacity to assist large numbers of adults. Part A: Literacy: Strategic Planning, Research, and Coordination - Subpart 1: National Planning, Research and Coordination - Establishes an Interagency Task Force on Adult Literacy. Requires the Task Force to report to the Congress and the President. Authorizes appropriations for the Task Force for FY 1991 through 1995. Establishes the National Institute for Adult Literacy as a nonprofit corporation which will not be an agency or establishment of the Federal Government. Divides the Institute into a research division, a technical assistance and training division, and a policy analysis division. Requires an annual report to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations for the Institute for FY 1991 through 1995. Sets forth the responsibilities of the Secretary for national coordination of literacy programs. Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to outline the responsibilities of an Assistant Secretary for the same programs. Subpart 2: State Planning, Research, and Coordination - Requires each State that receives adult literacy assistance under an applicable Federal program to: (1) establish a State advisory board on literacy; and (2) submit a State literacy coordination plan. Requires the board to report annually to the State Governor, and the State Governor to report annually to the Interagency Task Force on State progress in reaching the goals of its literacy plan. Directs the Secretary to make grants to States for a network of State or regional adult literacy resource centers. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for FY 1991 and after. Part B: Investment in Literacy - Amends the Adult Education Act (AEA) to increase and extend through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for AEA programs. Revises limitations on the use of funds to earmarking a specified amount for adult education and literacy services provided by community-based organizations and nonprofit volunteer agencies. Allows basic State grants under AEA to be used for competitive two-year Gateway Grants to public housing authorities for literacy programs and related activities like child care and job training. Requires State educational agencies to ensure direct and equitable access to assistance under AEA basic State grants by LEAs, public or private nonprofit agencies, community-based organizations, and institutions that service educationally disadvantaged adults. Authorizes the Secretary to make matching challenge grants to States for investment in adult literacy instruction staff training and educational technology. Authorizes appropriations for such challenge grants for FY 1991 through 1995. Establishes a Literacy Leader Training Fund. Directs the Secretary, through the Office on Literacy, to make scholarship grants from the Fund to individuals pursuing careers in adult education, instruction, management, research, or innovation, for education or research to expand their expertise. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes for FY 1991 through 1995. Part C: Workforce Literacy - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to carry out a national workforce literacy strategies program of grants for up to 70 percent of the costs of joint ventures between business, industry, or labor and State, regional, or Federal entities to provide large-scale models in strategic approaches to improving basic skills of workforce sectors. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995. Title VI: Safe and Drug-Free Schools - Declares the Federal Government's responsibly with respect to prevention of drug and alcohol abuse by students, school safety, and the pursuit of law enforcement careers. Amends HEA to provide for cancellation of student loans for service as a full-time local, State, or Federal law enforcement officer. Amends the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 to authorize the Director of the ACTION Agency, in carrying out certain special initiatives, to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for programs to assist individual volunteers, in cooperation with local education authorities, to protect elementary and secondary school students from violence in the community as a result of drug abuse or other criminal activities. Amends the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 (title V of ESEA) to require that drug-free school zones have specified characteristics. Authorizes a program for replication of successful drug abuse education programs. Authorizes the Secretary, under such program, to make grants for programs of: (1) drug abuse resistance education; and (2) drug abuse education, prevention, intervention, or counseling. Provides support for school-based: (1) before-and-after recreational activities, including drug and alcohol abuse prevention instruction; (2) community service programs as alternatives for at-risk youth; and (3) drug abuse counseling training programs. Title VII: Teacher Recruitment and Retention - Declares the Federal Government's responsibility to: (1) reward successful teachers and encourage them to further enhance their skills; (2) encourage qualified professionals in other fields to enter the teaching profession; and (3) ensure that current teachers continually develop their teaching skills and subject matter knowledge. Part A: Loans Incentives for Teaching - Amends HEA to establish a separate fund for teachers under the National Direct Student Loan (NDSL) program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 for the Secretary to make separate capital contributions to NDSL student loan funds. Requires a student, in order to receive a loan from the special account, to: (1) have completed two undergraduate years; (2) intend to pursue a teaching career; and (3) agree to certain repayment conditions if the student either does not enter full-time teaching within a certain period or ceases such teaching before the end of the five-year service period required for loan cancellation. Gives priority for such loans to minority students, or those otherwise underrepresented in the teaching profession or curricula areas, and to qualified individuals who need such a loan and who demonstrate high academic achievement and potential for success in teaching. Provides for an expedited loan cancellation option for teaching at certain types of schools. Part B: Financial Assistance for Institutional Recruitment and Retention of Individuals Preparing to Enter the Teaching Force - Directs the Secretary to allocate funds under this part to State educational agencies (SEAs) for grants to institutions of higher education for programs to recruit and retain students, particularly minority students, preparing to enter the teaching profession. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995. Part C: Professional Development Academies - Directs the Secretary to allocate 80 percent of funds for this part among SEAs, on the basis of number of disadvantaged children, to distribute such funds to consortia of local educational agencies (LEAs) for various activities relating to teacher training. Directs the Secretary, from the remaining 20 percent of under this part, to award to specified consortia grants to establish professional development academies to provide interstate, international, or other exemplary programs. Limits such grants to five years, with renewal for one additional five-year period. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995. Part D: Teacher Awards - Amends ESEA to establish the National Teacher Awards for Excellence in Education Program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States for such awards. Sets the amount of such an award at $5,000, to be used to improve the recipient's teaching ability. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1993. Part E: Mid-Career Teacher Training - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to specify the amount of the authorization of appropriations for FY 1991 for mid-career teacher training programs. Requires that at least 25 percent of such amount be for training of mathematics and science teachers. Title VIII: Postsecondary Educational Opportunity - Declares the Federal Government's responsibility to: (1) increase low-income and minority students' participation in postsecondary education; (2) expand college assistance to middle income families; (3) reduce reliance on parent and student loans as the principal means of financing postsecondary education; (4) enhance postsecondary institutions' capacity to recruit, and provide quality education to, minority and disadvantaged students, including graduate students; and (5) enhance student consumer protection. Declares the intention of the Congress to increase the annual appropriations for the Pell Grant program by a specified amount per fiscal year beginning with FY 1991. Requires contingent funding of the income contingent direct loan demonstration project by prohibiting funds for it unless sufficient funds are available for the Pell Grant program to provide grants equal to maximum specified amounts. Provides for Pell Grant program shortfall adjustments for insufficient appropriations. Removes from the computation of expected family contribution in the determination of need for assistance under the Pell Grant program and other HEA title IV student assistance programs the following nonliquid assets: (1) the family's principal place of residence; (2) a family farm on which the family resides; or (3) a small business substantially owned and managed by a member or members of the family. Directs the Secretary to recommend to the Congress any changes in such HEA provisions necessary to achieve an equitable assessment of income and assets after exclusion of such nonliquid assets. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for: (1) student educational opportunity grants (SEOG); (2) college work-study programs; and (3) State student incentive grants (SSIG). Amends HEA to authorize appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993 for special awards to historically Black colleges and universities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for special programs for students from disadvantaged backgrounds at institutions of higher education. Changes from discretionary to mandatory the Secretary's authority to enter into contracts to provide students with certain early information on eligibility for student financial assistance. Requires eligible institutions participating in student loan and assistance programs to have certain tuition refund policies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the following graduate programs under HEA: (1) grants to institutions to encourage minority participation in graduate education; (2) Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowships for graduate and professional students; and (3) assistance for training in the legal professions. Sets forth restrictions on institutional promotional activities. Title IX: Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation - Part A: National Summit Conference on Education - National Summit Conference on Education Amendments of 1990 - Amends the National Conference on Education Act of 1984 to revise provisions for the National Summit Conference on Education with respect to: (1) Executive Committee membership; (2) regional meetings; and (3) agenda. Part B: National Committee on Education - Authorizes the establishment of a National Committee on Education at the conclusion of the National Summit Conference on Education. Part C: Amendment to General Education Provisions Act - Amends the General Education Provisions Act of require that the Secretary's annual evaluation report to congressional committees comment on the per pupil expenditure of each local educational agency. Directs the Secretary to develop criteria for measuring equalization of educational expenditures among local educational agencies within a State.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 531 (101st)referred

Designating May 4, 1990, as Department of Education Day.

United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1990

Designates May 4, 1990, as Department of Education Day.

Bill· HRH.R. 4375 (101st)referred

Higher Education Savings Plan Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990

Higher Education Savings Plan Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt distributions from a higher education expenses annuity contract from the ten-percent penalty on premature distributions from annuity contracts. Excludes the premium to purchase such a contract from gift tax liability.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 530 (101st)referred

Designating July 2, 1990, as "National Literacy Day".

United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990

Designates July 2, 1990, as National Literacy Day.

Bill· HRH.R. 4330 (101st)open

National Service Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1990

National Service Act of 1990 - Title I: School-Based and Higher Education Community Service - Part A: School Based Community Service - Schools and Service-Learning Act of 1990 - Subpart I: School-Based Service Learning - Authorizes the Secretary of Education (the Secretary, for purposes of this title) to make grants to States for state-wide school-based service learning programs involving local partnerships of local educational agencies (LEAs) and other organizations. Authorizes appropriations. Subpart 2: Youthbuild Projects - Authorizes the Director of the ACTION Agency to make grants for up to 90 percent of the cost of Youthbuild projects. Requires that eligible participants in Youthbuild projects be employed in construction, rehabilitation, or improvement of: (1) residential rental housing for homeless individuals and low-income families; (2) transitional housing for homeless individuals; or (3) facilities for providing health, education, and other social services to low-income families. Requires that participants be provided: (1) service opportunities on such construction or rehabilitation projects which are integrated with appropriate skills training and preapprenticeship or apprenticeship programs; (2) education services; (3) personal and peer supports; (4) leadership development; (5) preparation for an placement in unsubsidized employment; and (6) support services and need-based stipends to enable participation, and support services, for up to six months after completion of training, to assist in retaining employment. Conditions provision of service opportunities upon individual attendance and participation in educational services and activities. Bases participant eligibility, with certain exceptions, on the individual's being: (1) 16 to 24 years of age; (2) economically disadvantaged; and (3) a high school dropout with reading and mathematics skills at or below the eighth grade level. Limits an individual's full-time participation to between six and 18 months. Authorizes appropriations. Subpart 3: Other Federal Volunteer Service Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants and contracts for: (1) rural youth service demonstration projects; (2) model community service and service-learning programs; and (3) model service programs for dropouts and out-of-school youth. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Director of the ACTION Agency to make grants to State Governors for initiatives involving non-school-based voluntary service projects in their States. Sets forth provisions for authorized activities and allotments based on school-age population. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Domestic Volunteer Service Act to authorize appropriations to increase the number of low-income individuals who provide services under the Foster Grandparent Program to children who participate in Head Start programs. Subpart 4: Activities of the Secretary of Education - Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) widely disseminate information about programs under this part; (2) provide for program evaluation, including participant and community opinions; and (3) make such evaluations available to the public, and to congressional committees in the Secretary's annual report. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to or contracts with experienced public and private nonprofit agencies for national or regional clearinghouses for information on volunteer service with respect to subpart 1 programs. Authorizes appropriations. Subpart 5: Volunteer Service Activities of the President - Authorizes the President to make Presidential Awards for School-Based Service recognizing excellence in school-based service programs. Authorizes the President to create an interagency task force to: (1) create and monitor effective measures for coordinating the various parts of this Act; and (2) design a comprehensive Federal service strategy, including specified components. Authorizes appropriations. Subpart 6: General Provisions - Prohibits making grants under this part for any educational program, activity, or service related to sectarian instruction or religious worship, or provided by a school or department of divinity. Applies the General Education Provisions Act to the programs authorized by this part. Part B: Higher Education Community Service - Subpart 1: Innovative Projects for Community Service - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and contracts with higher education institutions, (and other public agencies and nonprofit organizations working in partnership with such institutions) to: (1) enable them to create or expand their student community service activities; (2) encourage student initiated and designed community service projects; and (3) help integrate community service into academic curricula and crediting. Directs the Secretary to make grants to colleges, universities, and other nonprofit organizations to train teachers (and those planning teaching careers), education personnel, and community leaders in skills for developing, supervising, and organizing community service activities. Limits the Federal share under this subpart to not more than 50 percent of the cost of the community service activities. Authorizes appropriations. Subpart 2: Campus-Based Community Work Learning Jobs - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to provide for additional reservations of certain funds for: (1) campus-based community work learning study jobs; and (2) work-study for community service-learning on behalf of low-income individuals and families. Subpart 3: Guaranteed Student Loans - Amends HEA to provide for up to three-year loan deferments under the guaranteed student loan (GSL) and the federally-insured student loan (FISL) program for: (1) certain full-time volunteer service; (2) full-time employment as a professional in drug counseling, prevention, intervention, treatment, or education by a public or nonprofit private agency; and (3) full-time volunteers providing Indian health services. Subpart 4: Direct Loans to Students in Institutions of Higher Education - Amends HEA to provide for certain rates of partial cancellation of loans and certain deferments of loan repayments under the national direct student loan (NDSL) program for: (1) certain full-time volunteer service; (2) full-time employment as a professional in drug counseling and treatment; and (3) full-time volunteers providing Indian health services. Subpart 5: Publication - Amends HEA to require that specified information on student loan deferments and cancellations for certain full-time voluntary service be included in institutional information for students, exit counseling for borrowers, and Department of Education information on student loans. Subpart 6: Student Literacy Corps - Amends HEA to require Student Literacy Corps programs to give priority to tutoring services to illiterate parents of educationally or economically disadvantaged elementary school students, with special emphasis on single-parent households. Authorizes increased appropriations for the Student Literacy Corps. Subpart 7: Student Tutorial Corps Initiative - Amends HEA to create a Student Tutorial Corps. Authorizes the Secretary to make demonstration grants to higher education institutions for student tutorial programs that: (1) encourage their students to tutor educationally disadvantaged students in schools assisted under chapter 1 of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; (2) are conducted at such schools, at the request and with the direction of school personnel; and (3) do not displace any of such personnel. Authorizes appropriations. Part C: Peace Corps Volunteer Education Demonstration Program Act - Authorizes the Director of the Peace Corps (the Director) to carry out a training and educational benefits demonstration program. Makes eligible for such program participation any individual who: (1) has satisfactorily completed at least two years at a higher education institution, is enrolled in a bachelor's degree program of at least four years and will complete it within two years; (2) agrees to serve at least three years as a Peace Corps volunteer; and (3) is selected under a specified competitive process. Requires the Director to provide a Peace Corps training program for the selectees as part of their course of study at their institution. Requires that selectees receive certain educational benefits to cover costs of their last two years of study. Requires repayment if the individual fails to complete the educational program or the service requirement. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to collect such repayments. Requires the Director and the Secretary to evaluate such demonstration program jointly and submit an interim and a final report to the President and the Congress. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: To Establish the American Conservation and Youth Service Corps - Part A: American Conservation Corps - Establishes the American Conservation Corps (ACC), to be administered by Federal agencies and through a State grant component. Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to establish the Federal component of the ACC within their agencies to administer programs on Federal lands. Encourages Federal agencies to enter into program agreements with program agencies, local governments, and nonprofit organizations. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a program of grants to States to administer the State component of the ACC involving work on non-Federal public lands and waters. Directs each Governor to designate a State program agency. Requires States carrying out such programs to provide mechanisms for participation by local governments and nonprofit organizations. Authorizes the ACC to carry out conservation, rehabilitation, and improvement projects relating to: (1) wildlife habitat, rangelands, parks, recreational areas; (2) urban revitalization and historical and cultural sites; (3) fish and fisheries; (4) roads and trails; (5) erosion, floods, droughts, and storm damage assistance and control; (6) streams, lakes, waterfront harbors, and ports; (7) wetlands protection and pollution control; (8) insect, disease, rodent, and fire prevention and control; (9) improvement of abandoned railroad beds and rights-of-way; (10) energy conservation, renewable resources, and biomass recovery; (11) reclamation and improvement of strip-mined land; and (12) forestry, nursery, and cultural operations. Limits such projects to those on public lands or Indian lands, except where the administering Secretary determines that a project involving other lands will provide a public benefit. Part B: Youth Service Corps - Requires the Director of the ACTION Agency to appoint an Assistant Director to make grants for youth service projects to eligible public and private nonprofit agencies, and to otherwise administer Youth Service Corps (YSC) programs under this part. Provides for designation of specific activities as eligible service categories if: (1) they are of substantial social benefit in meeting unmet human, social (especially poverty-related), or environmental needs in a community; (2) they will not interfere unreasonably with employment availability and terms of employees of sponsoring organizations; and (3) participants are qualified for such activities. Allows such service categories to include service in: (1) State, local, and regional governmental agencies; (2) nursing homes, hospices, senior centers, hospitals, local libraries, parks, recreational facilities, day care centers, and schools; (3) law enforcement, penal, and probation agencies; (4) private nonprofit social services organizations; (5) rehabilitation or improvement of public facilities or neighborhoods, literacy programs, weatherization and repair of low-income housing, energy conservation (including solar energy), removal of public facility architectural barriers to the handicapped, and conservation, maintenance, or restoration of natural resources on publicly held lands; and (6) any other nonpartisan civic activities and services determined appropriate by the Assistant Director. Prohibits such service categories from including any position in any: (1) business organized for profit; (2) labor union; (3) partisan political organization; (4) religious organization, unless the position does not involve any religious functions; or (5) domestic or personal service organization. Part C: Youth Skills Enhancement - Requires the administering Secretary or the Assistant Director (as the case may be) to provide guidance and assistance to States in securing certification of training skills or academic credit for competencies developed under this title. Directs each program agency to maintain or enhance, through programs and projects under this title, the educational skills of program enrollees. Directs appropriate State and local officials to certify standards and procedures (that meet specified Federal criteria) for awarding academic credit and certifying educational attainment in such programs. Part D: Administrative Provisions - Sets forth requirements for award of grants to eligible entities, including matching requirements and limitations on use of funds. Limits enrollment in the ACC and YSC to individuals who, at the time of enrollment, are: (1) 16 through 25 years old (15 through 21 for summer programs); and (2) U.S. citizens or nationals or lawful permanent resident aliens. Requires the State job training coordinating council to appoint an advisory board for oversight and review of ACC and YSC projects under this title. Authorizes appropriations. Part E: Youth Service Clearinghouses - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior and the Director of the ACTION Agency to provide financial assistance to one or more national or regional clearinghouses on youth corps and youth service. Allows experienced public and private nonprofit agencies to apply for such assistance, and sets forth required clearinghouse functions.

Law· SS. 2300 (101st)enacted

a bill to provide financial assistance to the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, California, for the education programs of the Museum of Tolerance.

United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990

Authorizes the Secretary of Education to pay to the Museum of Tolerance of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, in Los Angeles, California, 50 percent of the cost of designing and operating education programs concerning the Holocaust. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 524 (101st)referred

Designating August 30, 1990, as "1890 Land-Grant Institutions Centennial Recognition Day".

United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990

Designates August 30, 1990, as 1890 Land-Grant Institutions Centennial Recognition Day.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 512 (101st)referred

Designating November 11 through 17, 1990, as "Geography Awareness Week".

United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1990

Designates the week of November 11 through 17, 1990, as Geography Awareness Week.

Bill· SS. 2252 (101st)referred

National Teacher Recruitment Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1990

National Teacher Recruitment Act of 1990 - Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act. Title I: National Teacher Job Bank - National Teacher Job Bank Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Education to contract with one or more State entities, nonprofit organizations, or institutions of higher education to pay the Federal share of the costs of establishing a National Teacher Job Bank Clearinghouse or Clearinghouses (either one national job bank or not more than six regional clearinghouses that together provide the services of a national job bank). Title II: Teaching Apprenticeship Program - Teaching Apprenticeship Program Demonstration Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary to make grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for programs that: (1) compensate for underrepresentation of ethnic and language minorities, individuals with disabilities, and gender among school faculty in the various academic disciplines; and (2) help promising apprentices acquire the education necessary to become employed full-time as teachers. Allows such awards to individual LEAs, consortia of LEAs, and LEA partnerships with other entities. Title III: Teaching Experience for Minorities - Minority Teaching Experience Act of 1990 - Part A: Young Teachers Program - Directs the Secretary to make grants to LEAs with at least 30 percent of total enrollment composed of children eligible for the disadvantaged children program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as well as LEA consortia and partnerships with other entities, for long-term programs to encourage and support young individuals, especially minorities and individuals with disabilities, to become involved in teaching. Allows such funds to be used for both pre-secondary and secondary school activities. Part B: College Student Teaching Program - Directs the Secretary to make three-year renewable grants to institutions of higher education which have existing teacher training programs to recruit and retain minority students and students with disabilities interested in teaching. Title IV: Financial Assistance for Future Teachers - Part A: Paul Douglas Scholarship Enhancement - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise provisions for Congressional Teacher Scholarship Programs (known as Paul Douglas Teacher Scholarships). Extends such program through 1995 and removes a limitation on the number of students who may receive scholarships. Retains the scholarship award amount for the first two academic years of postsecondary education, but increases it for the additional two years of study in preparation for teaching. Gives priority in selection of such scholarship winners to members of groups underrepresented in the teaching profession, such as minorities and individuals with disabilities. Doubles the annual amount of the authorization of appropriations for such program. Extends such authorization through FY 1995. Part B: College Work-Study Teaching Incentive - Amends HEA to provide that the Federal Government shall pay 100 percent of the work-study compensation of college students employed in teaching-related activities for schools and nonprofit organizations. Title V: Special Projects for Outstanding Teachers - Amends HEA to provide for a sevenfold increase in the annual amount of the authorization of appropriations for the Christa McAuliffe Fellowship Program (a national fellowship program for outstanding teachers). Extends such authorization through FY 1995.

Bill· SS. 2264 (101st)referred

A bill to amend the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 to provide that the Secretary of Education and two additional individuals from private life shall be members of the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1990

Amends the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 to provide that the Secretary of Education and two additional individuals appointed by the President from private life shall be members of the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Bill· HRH.R. 4232 (101st)open

National College Athletics Accountability Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1990

National College Athletics Accountability Act of 1990 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require disclosure, accounting, and certain methods of use and control of a higher education institution's revenues from, and expenditures for, its athletic departments and programs.

Bill· HRH.R. 4234 (101st)referred

Drug Abuse Prevention and Intervention Professionals Education Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1990

Drug Abuse Prevention and Intervention Professionals Education Act of 1990 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for the deferment of guaranteed and insured student loans, and the cancellation of direct student loans, for the performance of drug prevention and treatment services.

Bill· HRH.R. 4206 (101st)referred

To express the sense of the Congress regarding a national agenda for extending and improving foreign language instruction in the elementary schools of the Nation.

United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1990

Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 268 (101st)referred

A joint resolution to designate April 6, 1990, as "National Student-Athlete Day".

United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1990

Designates April 6, 1990, as National Student-Athlete Day.

Law· HJRESH.J.Res. 500 (101st)enacted

To designate April 6, 1990 as "Education Day, U.S.A.".

United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1990

Designates April 6, 1990, the 88th birthday of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, as Education Day, U.S.A. Calls on heads of state of the world to join the President of the United States in this tribute by signing scrolls of honor commemorating the 40th anniversary of Schneerson's leadership of the Lubavitch movement. Welcomes the cooperation of the Department of State in extending the good office of the U.S. missions to the Lubavitcher emissaries.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 499 (101st)referred

Designating April 15 through 21, 1990, as "National Young Writers Week".

United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1990

Designates the week of April 15 through 21, 1990, as National Young Writers Week.

Bill· SS. 2229 (101st)referred