[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4008 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4008

To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to prohibit 
   Federal mandates, direction, or control of specific instructional 
                    content, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 6, 2014

    Mr. Gingrey of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was 
        referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to prohibit 
   Federal mandates, direction, or control of specific instructional 
                    content, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Educational Freedom Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST FEDERAL MANDATES, DIRECTION, OR CONTROL.

    Subpart 2 of part E of title IX of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating sections 9534, 9535, and 9536 (20 
        U.S.C. 7914, 7915, and 7916), as sections 9535, 9536, and 9537, 
        respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after section 9533 (20 U.S.C. 7913) the 
        following:

``SEC. 9534. PROHIBITION AGAINST FEDERAL MANDATES, DIRECTION, OR 
              CONTROL.

    ``(a) In General.--No officer or employee of the Federal Government 
shall, directly or indirectly, through grants, contracts, or other 
cooperative agreements, mandate, direct, incentivize, or control a 
State's, local educational agency's, or school's specific instructional 
content, academic standards and assessments, curricula, or program of 
instruction (including through any requirement, direction, incentive, 
or mandate to adopt the Common Core State Standards developed under the 
Common Core State Standards Initiative or any other academic standards 
common to a significant number of States) nor shall any provision of 
this Act be construed to authorize such an officer or employee to do 
so.
    ``(b) Financial Support.--No officer or employee of the Federal 
Government shall, directly or indirectly, through grants, contracts, or 
other cooperative agreements, make financial support available in a 
manner that is conditioned upon a State's, local educational agency's, 
or school's adoption of specific instructional content, academic 
standards and assessments, curriculum, or program of instruction 
(including any requirement, direction, or mandate to adopt the Common 
Core State Standards developed under the Common Core State Standards 
Initiative, any other academic standards common to a significant number 
of States, or any assessment, instructional content, or curriculum 
aligned to such standards) even if such requirements are specified in 
an Act other than this Act, nor shall any provision of this Act be 
construed to authorize such an officer or employee to do so.''.
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