The repeal of the 1965 education act

[mercuryblues]

The next god damned fight. Holy fuck.

A BILL

To distribute Federal funds for elementary and secondary education in the form of vouchers for eligible students and to repeal a certain rule relating to nutrition standards in schools.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

TITLE I—Choices in Education Act
SEC. 101. Short title.
This title may be cited as the “Choices in Education Act of 2017”.
SEC. 102. Repeal of Elementary and Secondary Education Act and limitation on secretarial authority.

(a) Repeal.—The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.) is repealed.
(b) Limitation on secretarial authority.—The authority of the Secretary under this title is limited to evaluating State applications under section 104 and making payments to States under section 103. The Secretary shall not impose any further requirements on States with respect to elementary and secondary education beyond the requirements of this title.
SEC. 103. Block grants to states.

(a) Grants to states.—From amounts appropriated to carry out this title for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall award grants (from allotments made under subsection (b)) to qualified States to enable such States to carry out an education voucher program under section 105.

(b) Allotment.—From amounts described in subsection (a) for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall allot to each qualified State for that fiscal year an amount that bears the same ratio to those amounts as the number of eligible children in the qualified State (as determined by the Secretary on the basis of the most recent satisfactory data) bears to the number of all eligible children in all States in such school year.

(c) Reallotment.—If a State does not receive funds under subsection (b) for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall allot the remainder of such funds to each qualified State in an amount that bears the same ratio to such remainder for such year as the amount received under subsection (b) by such qualified State bears to the amount received under such subsection for such year by all qualified States.
(d) Deficit reduction.—Any amounts remaining after allotments are made under subsection (c) for a fiscal year shall not be available for any purpose other than deficit reduction.
SEC. 104. Application.

(a) Application.—To be eligible to receive a grant under this title, a State shall submit an application to the Secretary that includes assurances that the State will—
(1) comply with the requirements of section 105; and
(2) make it lawful for parents of an eligible child to elect—
(A) to enroll their child in any public or private elementary or secondary school in the State; or
(B) to home-school their child.


https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/610/text

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Most of these draconian House bills will never make it out of the Senate. nt

[msongs]

2. I would not bet on that. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Anything to do with budget needs 60 votes

This would impact the budget.

The (R)s have 52 votes in the Senate and would require 8 (D)s and/or (I)s to crossover, which ain't happening (4 "moderate" (D)s at the most could but it wouldn't be enough).

[jodymarie aimee]

4. old news

this came out at the end of January and most likely won't make it out of committee...

[Freddie]

5. You think we hounded our Congresspeople about the health care bill?!

If this gets any closer to a vote...I think we have discovered the power of being a loud PITA and we're going to use it!

[mercuryblues]

6. this is their wish list

and it should be hung on republiklans like flies on shit, come election time.