HR 2218 · 112th Congress · Education
Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act
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EnactedLatest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.(2011-09-14)
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Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act - Amends part B (Public Charter Schools) of title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to revise subpart 1 (Charter School Programs) and subsume subpart 2 (Credit Enhancement Initiatives to Assist Charter School Facility Acquisition, Construction, and Renovation) under subpart 1. (Under subpart 2 the Secretary of Education awards grants to public entities and private nonprofit entities to demonstrate innovative means of enhancing credit to finance the acquisition, construction, or renovation of charter schools.) Replaces the current charter school grant program with a program awarding grants to states and, through them, subgrants to charter school developers to open new charter schools and expand and replicate high-quality charter school models. Requires state grantees to use 10% of the grant funds to provide technical assistance to subgrantees and authorized public chartering agencies, and work with those agencies to improve the charter school authorization process. Revises the per-pupil facilities aid program (under which the Secretary makes competitive matching grants to states to provide per-pupil financi…
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CBO Cost Estimate
Congressional Budget OfficeH.R. 2218, Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act
Jun 30, 2011Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on June 22, 2011
Full CBO report ↗Official non-partisan budget analysis by the Congressional Budget Office
Cosponsors (13)
2 Democrats11 Republicans