A bill to help local school systems achieve Goal Six of the National Education Goals, which provides that by the year 2000, every school in America will be free of drugs and violence and will offer a disciplined environment conducive to learning, by ensuring that all schools are safe and free of violence.
Safe Schools Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to eligible local educational agencies for projects to achieve National Education Goal Six by helping to ensure that all schools are safe and free of violence.
Authorizes appropriations.
Authorizes the Secretary to use certain reserved funds to conduct national leadership activities such as research, program development and evaluation, data collection, public awareness activities, training and technical assistance, information dissemination, and peer review of applications under this Act.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) designate the District of Columbia as a national model city; and (2) provide certain reserved funds to a local educational agency serving the District for a comprehensive program to address school and youth violence.
Amends the General Education Provisions Act to require schools to include school safety policy and statistics on the incidents of school violence as part of the information collected and provided under the national cooperative education statistics system.
Text of Measure Incorporated into H.R.1804.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7507-7510)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8408-8410)
Referred to Subcommittee on Education, Arts, Humanities.
Subcommittee on Education, Arts, Humanities. Hearings held.
Subcommittee on Education, Arts, Humanities. Approved for full committee consideration with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator Kennedy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 103-180.
Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator Kennedy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 103-180.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 280.
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