[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1470 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1470

  To establish a demonstration program for school dropout prevention.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 26, 2001

Mr. Smith of Oregon introduced the following bill; which was read twice 
and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
  To establish a demonstration program for school dropout prevention.

    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 ``Dropout Reduction Outreach Program 
Act of 2001'' or the ``DROP Act''.

SEC. 2. SCHOOL DROPOUT PREVENTION.

    (a) Grants Authorized.--The Secretary of Education is authorized to 
carry out a demonstration program under which the Secretary awards 
grants to not less than 2 States to enable the States--
            (1) to provide targeted assistance to secondary school and 
        middle school students who are at risk of high school dropout 
        through specialized professional development opportunities for 
        guidance counselors, teachers or administrators who work with 
        such students at schools that have among the highest school 
        dropout rates in the State based on data for the 3 academic 
        years preceding the academic year for which the grant is 
        awarded, to determine if the school dropout rates decrease as a 
        result of the assistance;
            (2) to implement the hiring of additional guidance 
        counselors who have been trained to work with students at high 
        risk for dropping out to work with such students; and
            (3) to implement school and State program evaluation 
        strategies for the purpose of disseminating best practices on 
        effective school-based dropout prevention strategies.
    (b) Criteria for Selection.--To be eligible to receive a grant 
under this section, a State shall have provided the National Center for 
Education Statistics with not less than 3 contiguous years of State and 
school dropout data that are in compliance with the common core data 
standards of the National Center for Education Statistics, in order to 
ensure data-based decisionmaking in the awarding of such grants.
    (c) Evaluation and Report.--The Secretary of Education shall 
evaluate the activities assisted under this section and transmit to 
Congress a report regarding the results of the evaluation.
    (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $3,333,333 for each of the 
fiscal years 2002, 2003, and 2004.
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