Expanded Education Act

Bill: 110-s-2157
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Art
Arts, Culture, Religion
Civics education
Colleges
Compensatory education
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Higher education
History
Housing and Community Development
Juvenile delinquency
Language arts
Mathematics
Music
Nonprofit organizations
Parent-school relationships
Rating of teachers
Reading
Recreation
School administration
School districts
School libraries
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Social sciences
Sports and Recreation
Student activities
Student housing
Student transportation
Teacher salaries
Technical education
Theater
Transportation and Public Works
Year round schools
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
Expanded Education Act - Amends title I of the the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to create a new part I (Expanded Education) program awarding grants to states for the conduct of separate expanded day, week, or year pilot programs.
 
Requires that for each of the expanded day and week programs at least: (1) 20 schools in each small state and 50 schools in each large state participate; (2) 50% of each participating school's student population consist of low-income students; (3) one entire grade in each participating school be involved in the program. 
 
Requires each expanded day and week program to: (1) increase student proficiency in reading and language arts, and mathematics; (2) provide education in new areas or directions, so that it is not wholly remedial; and (3) include sufficient recreational, social, or extra-curricular cultural activities.
 
Allows each participating state to conduct expanded year programs through one or a combination of three school-based models: (1) two to be conducted by participating schools, institutions of higher education (IHE), or nonprofit organizations in schools at least 50% of whose students are low-income students, but differing in whether they require the mandatory participation of at least one entire grade or allow the voluntary participation of at least two grades at participating schools; and (2) one requiring the state to establish a voluntary summer learning institute for low-income students at an IHE to be run by the IHE or a nonprofit organization.
 
Requires each expanded year program to: (1) provide education in new areas or directions, or increase student expertise; (2) emphasize non-remedial work; and (3) include sufficient recreational, social, or extra-curricular cultural activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in Senate