[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 105 (Wednesday, July 8, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S4884]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2170. Mr. BOOKER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2089 submitted by Mr. Alexander (for himself and Mrs. 
Murray) to the bill S. 1177, to reauthorize the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ensure that every child achieves; 
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 623, strike line 8 and insert the following:
       ``(14) a description of how the State will support, through 
     the use of professional development, early childhood 
     education programs that maintain disciplinary policies that 
     do not include expulsion or suspension of participating 
     children, except as a last resort in extraordinary 
     circumstances where--
       ``(A) there is a determination of a serious safety threat; 
     and
       ``(B) policies are in place to provide appropriate 
     alternative early educational services to expelled or 
     suspended children while they are out of school; and''.
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