To provide public charter school options for those students that attend schools that are in need of improvement and have been identified for restructuring and those schools with a graduation rate of less than 60 percent, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-5647
Sponsor: Rep. Emanuel, Rahm [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2008-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Building construction
Charter schools
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federally-assisted loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Recruiting of employees
Revolving funds
School buildings
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Student enrollment
Student transportation
Subsidiary corporations
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Teacher supply and demand
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-14
text: 
Pell Grants for Kids Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary, subject to advance appropriations, to award competitive grants to states, public chartering agencies, local educational agencies, or tax-exempt organizations to enhance the capacity of public charter schools to serve additional students, particularly those transferring from schools identified as needing restructuring under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 for failing to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) pursuant to state academic performance standards for five consecutive school years.
 
Limits grant use to providing subgrants to public charter schools, covering the administrative expenses of grantees and subgrantees, and enhancing the availability of credit for such schools.
 
Fair Share Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Benefits) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to treat certain foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies performing services under a contract with the U.S. government as U.S. employers for purposes of Social Security and Medicare employment taxes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-03-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-03-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-03-14
text: Introduced in House