[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 104 (Thursday, June 20, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4187-S4188]
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SA 823. Mr. JOHNSON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 764 submitted by Mr. Inhofe and intended to be proposed to
the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 for
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:
SEC. 1086. AMENDMENTS TO THE SOAR ACT.
(a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ``SOAR
Reauthorization Act of 2019''.
(b) Amendments to SOAR.--The Scholarships for Opportunity
and Results Act (division C of Public Law 112-10) is
amended--
(1) in section 3007 (sec. 38-1853.07 D.C. Official Code)--
(A) by striking subsection (c) and redesignating subsection
(d) as subsection (c);
(B) in subsection (b)--
(i) in the subsection heading, by striking ``and Parental
Assistance'' and inserting ``, Parental Assistance, and
Student Academic Assistance'';
(ii) in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking
``$2,000,000'' and inserting ``$2,200,000''; and
(iii) by adding at the end the following:
``(3) The expenses of providing tutoring service to
participating eligible students that need additional academic
assistance. If there are insufficient funds to provide
tutoring services to all such students in a year, the
eligible entity shall give priority in such
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year to students who previously attended an elementary school
or secondary school identified as one of the lowest-
performing schools under the District of Columbia's
accountability system.''; and
(C) in subsection (c), as redesignated by subparagraph
(A)--
(i) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ``subsections (b) and
(c)'' and inserting ``subsection (b)''; and
(ii) in paragraph (3), by striking ``subsections (b) and
(c)'' and inserting ``subsection (b)'';
(2) in section 3008(h) (sec. 38-1853.08 D.C. Official
Code)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``section
3009(a)(2)(A)(i)'' and inserting ``section 3009(a)'';
(B) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:
``(2) The Institute of Education Sciences may administer
assessments to students participating in the evaluation under
section 3009(a) for the purpose of conducting the evaluation
under such section.''; and
(C) in paragraph (3), by striking ``the nationally norm-
referenced standardized test described in paragraph (2)'' and
inserting ``a nationally norm-referenced standardized test'';
(3) in section 3009(a) (sec. 38-1853.09 D.C. Official
Code)--
(A) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking ``annually'';
(B) in paragraph (2)--
(i) in subparagraph (A), by striking clause (i) and
inserting the following:
``(i) is rigorous; and''; and
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``impact of the
program'' and all that follows through the end of the
subparagraph and inserting ``impact of the program on
academic achievement and educational attainment.'';
(C) in paragraph (3)--
(i) in the paragraph heading, by striking ``on education''
and inserting ``of education'';
(ii) in subparagraph (A)--
(I) by inserting ``the academic progress of'' after
``assess''; and
(II) by striking ``in each of grades 3'' and all that
follows through the end of the subparagraph and inserting ``;
and'';
(iii) by striking subparagraph (B); and
(iv) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (B);
and
(D) in paragraph (4)--
(i) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``A comparison of the
academic achievement of participating eligible students who
use an opportunity scholarship on the measurements described
in paragraph (3)(B) to the academic achievement'' and
inserting ``The academic progress of participating eligible
students who use an opportunity scholarship compared to the
academic progress'';
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``increasing the
satisfaction of such parents and students with their choice''
and inserting ``those parents' and students' satisfaction
with the program''; and
(iii) by striking subparagraph (D) through (F) and
inserting the following:
``(D) The high school graduation rates, college enrollment
rates, college persistence rates, and college graduation
rates of participating eligible students who use an
opportunity scholarship compared with the rates of public
school students described in subparagraph (A), to the extent
practicable.
``(E) The college enrollment rates, college persistence
rates, and college graduation rates of students who
participated in the program as the result of winning the
Opportunity Scholarship Program lottery compared to the
enrollment, persistence, and graduation rates for students
who entered but did not win such lottery and who, as a
result, served as the control group for previous evaluations
of the program under this division. Nothing in this
subparagraph may be construed to waive section
3004(a)(3)(A)(iii) with respect to any such student.
``(F) The safety of the schools attended by participating
eligible students who use an opportunity scholarship compared
with the schools in the District of Columbia attended by
public school students described in subparagraph (A), to the
extent practicable.''; and
(4) in section 3014(a) (sec. 38-1853.14, D.C. Official
Code), by striking ``fiscal year 2019'' and inserting
``fiscal year 2024''.
(c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (b)
shall take effect on September 30, 2019.
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