3.0.0 902 2020-02-10T17:06:56Z 2020-02-10T17:06:56Z Senate S S 2011-05-05 112 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2011-05-05T20:06:50Z 2011-05-05 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 S2741-2743) IntroReferral 2011-05-05 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2740-2741) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2011-05-05 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H000206 Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] THOMAS HARKIN D IA RICHARD N Education Air quality Child safety and welfare Education of the disadvantaged Education programs funding Educational facilities and institutions Educational technology and distance education Elementary and secondary education Energy efficiency and conservation Government information and archives Government studies and investigations Hazardous wastes and toxic substances Higher education Noise pollution Preschool education Rural conditions and development Education 00 2011-05-05 Introduced in Senate 2011-05-17T19:29:10Z School Building Fairness Act of 2011 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to direct the Secretary of Education to allocate funds to states for competitive matching grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for school repair, renovation, and construction.

Reserves 1% of the grant funds for assistance to outlying areas and Indian schools.

Requires each state, in awarding such grants to LEAs, to consider: (1) the percentage of poor children each LEA serves; (2) the condition of their public schools or need for additional schools; (3) the extent to which they will comply with certain green building standards; (4) their fiscal capacity to cover repairs, renovations, and construction without such a grant; and (5) the likelihood that they will maintain repaired, renovated, or newly constructed schools in good condition.

Requires each state to award high-need and rural LEAs, in the aggregate, at least the same proportion of this Act's LEA funds for the state that they received of total LEA school improvement funds for the state under part A of Title I of the ESEA.

Directs each state to reserve a portion of their allocation for a state-level database of public school facility inventory, condition, design, and utilization.

Requires the National Center for Education Statistics to study the condition of public elementary and secondary schools, including an analysis of trends in spending for their repair, renovation, and construction.

Directs the Secretary to provide for the establishment of a clearinghouse of information on the best educational practices from nursery school through higher education, and the latest research regarding the construction, improvement, and maintenance of safe, healthy, and high-performance public schools.

]]> School Building Fairness Act of 2011 Short Titles as Introduced School Building Fairness Act of 2011 Display Title School Building Fairness Act of 2011 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend part D of title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide grants for the repair, renovation, and construction of elementary and secondary schools. Introduced in Senate 2011-05-05T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s902is/xml/BILLS-112s902is.xml 2011-05-05 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2741-2743) 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.