School Overcrowding Reduction Act

Bill: 115-hr-6002
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2018-06-05
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Building construction

Education of the disadvantaged

Education programs funding

Educational facilities and institutions

Elementary and secondary education

School administration
Latest action: action_date: 2018-10-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-06-05
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>School Overcrowding Reduction Act</b></p> <p>This bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to award competitive grants to qualifying local educational agencies for activities relating to the construction of a school facility.</p> <p>In selecting grantees, ED shall prioritize agencies&nbsp;that demonstrate that grant amounts will be used to construct a school facility&nbsp;located within two miles&nbsp;of a school in which the&nbsp;average class size (excluding special education classes) exceeds 25 students. </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6002 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 5, 2018 Mr. Crowley introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To direct the Secretary of Education to establish a grant program for the construction of schools in overcrowded areas, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the School Overcrowding Reduction Act . 2. School construction grant program (a) Establishment Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Education shall establish a program (in this section referred to as the Program ) under which the Secretary may award grants, on a competitive basis, to qualifying local educational agencies in accordance with this section. (b) Applications To be eligible for a grant under the Program, a qualifying local educational agency shall submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such form, and containing such information as the Secretary may require. (c) Grant uses Grant amounts awarded to a qualifying local educational agency under the Program shall be used for activities relating to the construction of a school facility. (d) Priority of award In selecting qualifying local educational agencies to receive a grant under the Program, the Secretary shall give priority to agencies that demonstrate that grant amounts received will be used to construct a school facility in a location that is no more than two miles from a school served by the agency in which the average class size (excluding special education classes exclusively serving children with disabilities as defined in section 602 of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ( 20 U.S.C. 1401 )) exceeds 25 students. (e) Authorization of appropriations There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out the Program $10,000,000,000 for fiscal years 2019 through 2023. (f) Qualifying local educational agency defined In this section, the term qualifying local educational agency means a local educational agency (as that term is defined in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 7801 )) that— (1) is a recipient of funds under title I of such Act ( 20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.); and (2) has a service area with respect to which— (A) the aggregate average class size (excluding special education classes exclusively serving children with disabilities as defined in section 602 of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ( 20 U.S.C. 1401 )) exceeds 23 students; or (B) more than 20 percent of students are assigned to a class with more than 30 students.