[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1890 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1890

To ensure that decisions by the Secretary of Education to award grants 
  or other assistance to States or local educational agencies are not 
    contingent upon the adoption of specific educational curricula.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 20, 2013

  Mr. Cochran 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 ensure that decisions by the Secretary of Education to award grants 
  or other assistance to States or local educational agencies are not 
    contingent upon the adoption of specific educational curricula.

    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 ``Preserving Education Access and 
Autonomy Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON REQUIRING THE ADOPTION OF SPECIFIC CURRICULA.

    (a) Definition of Education Grant or Assistance.--In this section, 
the term ``education grant or assistance''--
            (1) means any grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or 
        other assistance provided through a program administered by the 
        Secretary of Education; and
            (2) includes any waiver of a statutory or regulatory 
        requirement of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
        1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.) granted by the Secretary of 
        Education under the authority provided under section 9401 of 
        such Act (20 U.S.C. 7861).
    (b) No Requirement for Specific Curricula.--Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, the Secretary of Education shall not require, 
as a condition of any education grant or assistance, that a State or 
local educational agency adopt a specific elementary school or 
secondary school curriculum.
    (c) No Priority for Specific Curricula.--Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, the Secretary of Education shall select recipients 
for any education grant or assistance without providing any priority, 
preference, or special consideration to a State or local educational 
agency based on the adoption by the State or local educational agency 
of a specific elementary school or secondary school curriculum.
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