[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3313 Introduced in House (IH)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 3313

To amend the Goals 2000: Educate America Act to allow local educational 
 agencies to participate in certain programs if the State in which the 
                agency is located does not participate.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 24, 1996

Mr. Moran (for himself, Mr. Payne of Virginia, Mr. Scott, Mr. Boucher, 
 Mr. Pickett, Mr. Williams, Mr. Martinez, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Browder, Ms. 
 Woolsey, and Mr. Miller of California) introduced the following bill; 
    which was referred to the Committee on Economic and Educational 
                             Opportunities.

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Goals 2000: Educate America Act to allow local educational 
 agencies to participate in certain programs if the State in which the 
                agency is located does not participate.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Goals 2000 Local Autonomy Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) In 1989, President Bush and the Nation's Governors 
        endorsed the need for National Education Goals defining what 
        students need to know in each subject area, standards for 
        performance improvement in those subject areas, and assessments 
        to measure student performance.
            (2) The idea for Goals 2000 was initiated by a Republican 
        President, passed by Congress with bipartisan support, and 
        signed by a Democratic President.
            (3) There is a substantial movement to preserve the 
        autonomy of each local educational agency's right to decide the 
        curriculum for their own school systems.
            (4) Some local educational agencies who would like to 
        participate in the Goals 2000 program have been prevented from 
        doing so by their State government's decision not to 
        participate in this program.

SEC. 3. LOCAL BYPASS.

    Section 304 of the Goals 2000: Educate America Act is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(e) Local Bypass.--
            ``(1) Local grants authorized.--Notwithstanding any other 
        provision of law, if a State does not participate in the 
        program authorized under this title, the Secretary is 
        authorized to use the allotment such State would have received 
        under this section to award grants, through a competitive 
        process, to local educational agencies in such State that have 
        applications approved under paragraph (2).
            ``(2) Application required.--Each local educational agency 
        described in paragraph (1) desiring a grant under such 
        paragraph shall submit an application to the Secretary at such 
        time, in such manner and accompanied by such information, as 
        the Secretary may require. Each such application shall contain 
        assurances that the local educational agency will develop a 
        local improvement plan that meets such requirements applicable 
        to a State educational agency under section 306, and will meet 
        such other requirements applicable to a State educational 
        agency under this title, as the Secretary determines are 
        appropriately applied to a local educational agency under this 
        subsection.''.
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