Quality Education for All Act

Bill: 109-s-15
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Administrative procedure
Authorization
Block grants
Building construction
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
College costs
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Curricula
Day care
Department of Education
Disabled
Discrimination
Discrimination in education
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational facilities
Educational statistics
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
English language
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Indian education
Interest
Internet
Language arts
Law
Licenses
Literacy programs
Maintenance and repair
Mathematics
Migrant education
Minorities
Paraprofessional school personnel
Parent-school relationships
Preschool education
Reading
Rural education
Scholarships
School administration
School buses
School choice
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Social Welfare
Special education
State taxation
Student loan funds
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax refunds
Taxation
Teacher education
Teachers
Transportation and Public Works
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Quality Education for All Act - Extends authorizations of appropriations under: (1) the Head Start Act (HSA); and (2) the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (CCDBGA). 
 
Revises HSA provisions for: (1) Indian and migrant and seasonal programs; (2) expanded access to Early Head Start and Head Start; (3) part-day to full-day programs; (4) school readiness standards; (5) staff training, development, and salaries; and (6) tribal college or university partnership. 
 
Revises CCDBGA requirements for staff training and child care quality improvement activities.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to rural local educational agencies for purchasing new school buses.
 
Expresses the sense of the Senate regarding: (1) fully funding the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act by 2011; (2) funding for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA); and (3) increasing the maximum Pell Grant under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA).
 
Revises ESEA requirements for: (1) public school choice, supplemental educational services, and teacher quality; (2) adequate yearly progress determinations; (3) technical assistance; (4) assessment and accountability; and (5) prohibiting discrimination.
 
Revises HEA to provide for: (1) extending and increasing authorizations of appropriations for TRIO and GEARUP programs; (2) no reduction of student aid eligibility based on updates to tax tables; (3) demonstration grants to help low-income students enroll in summer courses to complete their college degrees; and (4) tuition-free college for mathematics, science, and special education teachers, through additional amounts of student loan forgiveness.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) expand the deduction for higher education expenses; (2) establish a credit for interest on higher education loans; and (3) make Hope and Lifetime Learning credits refundable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S546-547)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S174-183)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate