Educational Reform Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-848
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2005-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Block grants
Building construction
Child development
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
College costs
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Construction workers
Curricula
Day care
Department of Education
Disabled
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational facilities
Educational planning
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Evidence (Law)
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Higher education
Illiteracy
Income tax
Indian children
Indian education
Labor and Employment
Language arts
Law
Maintenance and repair
Mathematics
Migrant education
Minimum wages
Minorities
Paraprofessional school personnel
Preschool education
Reading
Scholarships
School choice
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Seasonal labor
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Standards
State taxation
State-local relations
Student loan funds
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Taxation
Teacher education
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers
Wages
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: 
Educational Reform Act of 2005 - 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.
 
Revises ESEA requirements for: (1) public school choice, supplemental educational services, and teacher quality; (2) adequate yearly progress determinations; and (3) technical assistance.
 
Revises the Higher Education Act of 1965 (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. Expresses the sense of the Senate regarding increasing the maximum Pell Grant under HEA.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make Hope and Lifetime Learning credits refundable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 82.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate