3.0.0 1551 2023-01-15T06:17:46Z 2023-01-15T06:17:46Z Senate S S 2003-07-31 108 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2003-08-01T03:19:52Z 2003-07-31 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR 8/1/2003 S10684-10685) IntroReferral 2003-07-31 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10683-10684) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2003-07-31 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M000303 Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ] JOHN MCCAIN R AZ SIDNEY N Education Academic performance Charter schools Commerce Congress Congressional investigations Corporation taxes Economics and Public Finance Education of the disadvantaged Educational accountability Educational vouchers Elementary and secondary education Elementary education Families Federal aid to education Income tax Parent-school relationships Private schools Religion Religious education Scholarships School choice Secondary education Social Welfare Student transportation Tax exclusion Tax rates Taxation Transportation and Public Works Travel costs Waste in government spending Education 00 2003-07-31 Introduced in Senate 2004-03-17T19:44:22Z Excellence through Choice to Elevate Learning Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to States for private or public school choice vouchers for children from low-income families who are enrolled in low-performing elementary or secondary public schools.

Requires each grantee State to provide scholarships (at $2,000 per year, but with continuing awards) to the parents of eligible children through a lottery system administered for all eligible schools by the State educational agency. Requires that a child eligible for such a scholarship be: (1) enrolled in an eligible public elementary or secondary school; and (2) a member a family with income not more than 200 percent of the poverty line.

Allows the use of such funds for: (1) payment of tuition and fees at the school selected by the scholarship child's parents, plus reasonable transportation costs; (2) up to $500 of supplementary academic services, if the parents choose a provider (with an appropriate refund policy) which the State determines capable of rendering such services; and (3) educational programs that help the child achieve high levels of academic excellence, if the child chooses to attend a public school.

Requires: (1) a grantee State to allow lawfully operating public and private elementary and secondary schools serving the area involved, including religious schools, to participate in the program; (2) participating schools or providers of supplementary academic services to comply with specified antidiscrimination requirements; and (3) national evaluation of the program by the Comptroller General.

Directs specified congressional committees to identify, and report to certain congressional leaders on, wasteful Federal spending (including loopholes to revenue raising tax provisions) as a means of providing funding for this Act.]]>

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