I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 83 
To amend part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
Act of 1965 to allow States, in accordance with State law, to let Federal 
funds for the education of disadvantaged children follow low-income chil-
dren to the public school, charter school, accredited private school, or 
supplemental educational service program they attend, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 3, 2025 
Mr. BIGGS of Arizona introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and Workforce 
A BILL 
To amend part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 to allow States, in accordance 
with State law, to let Federal funds for the education 
of disadvantaged children follow low-income children to 
the public school, charter school, accredited private 
school, or supplemental educational service program they 
attend, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Ending Common Core 
and Expanding School Choice Act’’. 
SEC. 2. STATE EDUCATIONAL AGENCY GRANTS TO ELIGI-
BLE CHILDREN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part A of title I of the Elemen-
tary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
6311 et seq.) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘PART A—STATE EDUCATIONAL AGENCY GRANTS 
TO ELIGIBLE CHILDREN 
‘‘SEC. 1111. ALLOCATIONS TO STATES. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—For each fiscal year, the Sec-
retary shall allocate the amount appropriated to carry out 
this part among State education agencies based on the 
number of eligible children residing in each State. 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE CHILD.—In this section, the term ‘eli-
gible child’ means a child aged 5 to 17, inclusive, from 
a family with an income below the poverty level on the 
basis of the most recent satisfactory data published by the 
Department of Commerce. 
‘‘(c) CRITERIA OF POVERTY.—In determining the 
families with incomes below the poverty level for the pur-
poses of this section, a State educational agency shall use 
the criteria of poverty used by the Census Bureau in com-
piling the most recent decennial census, as the criteria 
have been updated by increases in the Consumer Price 
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Index for All Urban Consumers, published by the Bureau 
of Labor Statistics. 
‘‘SEC. 1112. FUNDS FOLLOWING ELIGIBLE CHILDREN. 
‘‘(a) CALCULATION OF PER PUPIL AMOUNT.—For 
each fiscal year, the State educational agency shall cal-
culate the per pupil amount by dividing the amount made 
available to the agency under section 1111 by the number 
of eligible children (as defined in section 1111(b)) residing 
in the State. 
‘‘(b) USE OF FUNDS.—Each State educational agen-
cy shall use each per pupil amount calculated under sub-
section (a) for qualified elementary and secondary edu-
cation expenses and in a manner directed by State law. 
‘‘(c) FUNDS DISTRIBUTED TO PARENTS.—In a case 
in which State law directs a State educational agency to 
distribute all or a portion of a per pupil amount to a par-
ent of an eligible child, the agency also shall determine, 
consistent with State law, how the agency will verify that 
funds are being used in accordance with this section and 
whether to require the parent to establish an educational 
savings account or other dedicated account to maintain 
such funds. 
‘‘(d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘quali-
fied elementary and secondary education expenses’, when 
used with respect to a child, means any of the following: 
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‘‘(1) Expenses within the budget of the local 
educational agency having jurisdiction over the geo-
graphic area in which the child resides. 
‘‘(2) Expenses within the budget of the public 
or charter school the child may attend without pay-
ing tuition or fees. 
‘‘(3) Tuition and fees required to be paid in 
order for the child to attend a public or charter 
school in the State in which the child resides. 
‘‘(4) Tuition and fees required to be paid in 
order for the child to attend an accredited or other-
wise State-approved private school in the State in 
which the child resides. 
‘‘(5) Fees required to be paid for the child to 
participate in a State-approved supplemental edu-
cational services program. 
‘‘SEC. 1113. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—No officer or employee of the 
Federal Government shall, through grants, contracts, or 
other cooperative agreements, mandate, direct, or control 
a State, local educational agency, or school’s specific in-
structional content, academic standards and assessments, 
curricula, or program of instruction (including any re-
quirement, direction, or mandate to adopt the Common 
Core State Standards developed under the Common Core 
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State Standards Initiative, any other academic standards 
common to a significant number of States, or any assess-
ment, instructional content, or curriculum aligned to such 
standards), nor shall anything in this Act be construed 
to authorize such officer or employee to do so. 
‘‘(b) NO REQUIREMENT TO IMPLEMENT ASSESS-
MENTS, STANDARDS, OR ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEMS.—An 
officer or employee of the Federal Government shall not 
require a State educational agency, local educational agen-
cy, school, or Indian Tribe to implement an annual assess-
ment, academic standard, or accountability system, or 
condition funds made available under this part upon such 
implementation.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) REPEAL OF STATE ASSESSMENT GRANTS.— 
Part B of title I of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1201 et seq.) is 
repealed. 
(2) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
Section 1002 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 6302) is 
amended— 
(A) by striking the subsection heading for 
subsection (a) and inserting ‘‘STATE
EDU-
CATIONAL
AGENCY
GRANTS
FOR
ELIGIBLE 
CHILDREN’’; and 
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