Keeping Our Education Promise to America's Children Act of 2004 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to defer certain Federal mandates under ESEA amendments made by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLBA) if the Federal Government fails to make specified minimum appropriations for provisions related to such mandates.
Prohibits any school or local educational agency (LEA) from being identified for or subject to certain requirements of school improvement, corrective action, or restructuring for any year for which appropriations are less than 97 percent of specified amounts in each of FY 2005 through 2007 to carry out ESEA title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) part A (Improving Basic Programs Operated by LEAs).
Authorizes any State educational agency (SEA) to defer commencing, suspend implementing, or modify (but not cease developing) certain SEA and LEA requirements for teachers and paraprofessionals, for one year for each year for which appropriations are less than 97 percent of specified amounts in each of FY 2005 through 2007 to carry out ESEA title II (Preparing, Training, and Recruiting High Quality Teachers and Principals) part A (Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting Fund) subparts 1 through 4 (Grants to States; Subgrants to LEAs; Subgrants to Eligible Partnerships; Accountability).
[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4957 Introduced in House (IH)]
108th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 4957
To ensure an appropriate balance between resources and accountability
under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 22, 2004
Mr. John introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Education and the Workforce
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A BILL
To ensure an appropriate balance between resources and accountability
under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Keeping Our Education Promise to
America's Children Act of 2004''.
SEC. 2. DEFERRAL OF FEDERAL MANDATES IF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FAILS TO
MAKE MINIMUM APPROPRIATIONS.
(a) Deferral of Certain Requirements.--Section 1116 of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6316) is
amended by adding at the end the following:
``(i) Deferral.--No school or local educational agency may be
identified for or subject to the requirements of school improvement,
corrective action, or restructuring under this section for any school
year for which the amounts appropriated for the corresponding fiscal
year for the purpose of carrying out this part are less than 97 percent
of the following:
``(1) $20,500,000,000 for fiscal year 2005.
``(2) $22,750,000,000 for fiscal year 2006.
``(3) $25,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2007.''.
(b) Deferral of Requirements for Teachers and Paraprofessionals.--
Section 1119 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20
U.S.C. 6319) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(m) Deferral.--A State educational agency may defer the
commencement, suspend the implementation, or modify but not cease the
development, of the requirements of this section (for the State
educational agency and local educational agencies within the State) for
1 school year for each fiscal year for which the amounts appropriated
to carry out subparts 1 through 4 of part A of title II are less than
97 percent of the following:
``(1) $3,016,000,000 for fiscal year 2005.
``(2) $3,076,000,000 for fiscal year 2006.
``(3) $3,143,000,000 for fiscal year 2007.''.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
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