3.0.0 7203 2021-09-29T17:25:22Z 2021-09-29T17:25:22Z House H HR 2008-09-28 110 hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee House Standing Referred to 2008-09-28T17:01:15Z 2008-09-28 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee 2008-09-28 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2008-09-28 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress H001034 Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15] MICHAEL HONDA D CA M. 15 N H001042 Rep. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI-2] Mazie Hirono D HI K. 2 2008-09-28 True C001061 Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5] Emanuel Cleaver D MO 5 2008-09-28 True G000551 Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7] Raúl Grijalva D AZ M. 7 2008-09-28 True F000043 Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2] CHAKA FATTAH D PA 2 2008-09-28 True Education Academic performance Citizen participation Congress Congressional reporting requirements Educational accountability Educational equalization Educational innovations Elementary and secondary education Elementary education Federal advisory bodies Government Operations and Politics Secondary education Education 00 2008-09-28 Introduced in House 2009-04-14T20:57:44Z Citizens' Commission on Educational Equity Act of 2008 - Establishes the Citizens' Commission on Educational Equity, composed of the Secretary of Education and 14 educational stakeholders appointed by the Comptroller General.

Tasks the Commission with conducting a study and reporting to Congress on ways to enable all students to achieve their academic potential, with particular emphasis on: (1) ensuring that schools receive adequate resources; (2) developing methods for assessing students' educational needs; and (3) creating innovative strategies for state and local educational agencies to follow to enable students to achieve their academic potential, and to enable such agencies to participate in school funding reform efforts that result in educational equity.

Directs the Commission to conduct outreach programs with communities throughout the nation to engage them in a public dialogue on how to ensure that their schools enable all students to achieve their academic potential.

]]> Citizens' Commission on Educational Equity Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced Citizens' Commission on Educational Equity Act of 2008 Display Title Citizens' Commission on Educational Equity Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced To provide for the establishment of a commission to engage in an informed, national, and public dialogue about how to ensure that each student in the United States receives an equitable education that enables the student to achieve his or her maximum academic potential. Introduced in House 2008-09-28T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110hr7203ih/xml/BILLS-110hr7203ih.xml 2008-09-28 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.