Fairness for Texas Schools Act of 2011 - Repeals the requirement that the Secretary of Education deny Texas and its local educational agencies (LEAs) funds from the Education Jobs Fund until the state assures the Secretary that: (1) funds used to support elementary and secondary education shall be distributed based on the LEAs' relative shares of school improvement funds for the most recent fiscal year for which data are available; (2) such funds will not be used to supplant state formula funding that is distributed like school improvement funds; and (3) state funding for elementary and secondary education, as a percentage of the state's total revenue, will not be reduced through FY2013.
[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 151 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
112th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 151
To eliminate certain provisions relating to Texas and the Education
Jobs Fund.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 25 (legislative day, January 5), 2011
Mrs. Hutchison (for herself and Mr. Cornyn) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions
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A BILL
To eliminate certain provisions relating to Texas and the Education
Jobs Fund.
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 ``Fairness for Texas Schools Act of
2011''.
SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF PROVISIONS RELATING TO TEXAS.
Section 101 of Public Law 111-226 (124 Stat. 2389) is amended by
striking paragraph (11).
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Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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