AFFORDABLE EDUCATION ACT

Amendments

Enact (S. 1134), S826 [24FE], S860, S872, S873, S874, S879, S881, S883, S884, S885, S886, S888, S889, S890, S891 [28FE], S899, S922, S955, S956, S957 [29FE], S992, S996, S1001, S1005, S1009, S1013, S1014, S1018, S1032, S1033, S1034 [1MR], S1054, S1062, S1071, S1072, S1073, S1079, S1082, S1083, S1085, S1089, S1092, S1131, S1137, S1138, S1146, S1147, S1148 [2MR]

Articles and editorials

School Choice for the Rich, S914 [29FE]

Section 529 College Savings Plans Rate an A, S923 [29FE]

Cloture motions

Enact (S. 1134), S775 [24FE]

Letters

Federal Housing Finance Board allocation of authority to Federal Home Loan Banks to guarantee school construction bonds: Deborah F. Silberman and William W. Ginsberg, Federal Housing Finance Board, S1096 [2MR]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act funding: National Governors' Association, S905 [29FE]

Provisions: Michael A. Resnick, National School Boards Association, S905 [29FE]

School construction and renovation tax incentives: Wayne G. Sanstead, North Dakota Dept. of Public Instruction, S990 [1MR]

School social promotion: NAACP, S1076 [2MR]

Lists

Multiple shootings in 1999, S1066 [2MR]

Motions

Enact (S. 1134), S919 [29FE], S991 [1MR], S1099 [2MR]

Remarks in House

Enact (S. 1134), E345 [16MR]

Remarks in Senate

Dept. of HHS: report to Congress on extent and severity of child poverty, S1009-S1013 [1MR]

Education: assist local educational agencies in enabling students to meet academic achievement standards and end social promotion, S1074-S1082, S1100 [2MR]

———ensure accountability in programs for disadvantaged children and provide funds to assist failing schools, S996-S1000, S1005, S1006 [1MR]

———establish the Careers to Classrooms Program, S1013, S1018 [1MR]

———improve and strengthen the recruitment and training of teachers, S1058-S1062, S1070, S1071 [2MR]

———issue a nationally standardized school report card to students, S1055 [2MR]

———Pell Grant Program funding, S1072, S1073, S1098, S1099 [2MR]

———promote teacher and principal quality and professional development, S1090-S1092, S1094 [2MR]

———provide funds to assist high-poverty school districts meet their teaching needs, S1000-S1003 [1MR]

———provide grants for master teacher programs, S1092, S1101 [2MR]

———provide scholarships and loan forgiveness and cancellation for future teachers, S1086, S1101 [2MR]

———school construction and infrastructure improvements funding, S1055 [2MR]

Enact (S. 1134), S713-S736 [23FE], S758, S774, S775, S777, S778 [24FE], S847-S862 [28FE], S899-S924 [29FE], S983-S1003, S1005-S1018 [1MR], S1045-S1111 [2MR], S1170 [6MR], S1384 [9MR]

———technical corrections, S1111 [2MR]

———unanimous-consent agreement, S1056 [2MR]

Federal Housing Finance Board: allocate authority to Federal Home Loan Banks to guarantee school construction bonds, S1096, S1097 [2MR]

Firearms: reduce violence in schools, S1083-S1085, S1101 [2MR]

Schools: notify parents in advance of the use of certain pesticides and provide school districts with current EPA pesticides manual and list, S1095, S1096 [2MR]

———provide a safer educational environment by implementing policies to reduce threat of gun violence, S1063-S1068, S1097 [2MR]

———provide a safer educational environment by implementing policies to reduce violence and illegal drug use, S1071, S1072, S1097 [2MR]

Senate: retaking of vote due to clerical error, S1099 [2MR]

Taxation: eliminate marriage tax penalty by increasing income phaseout thresholds for education savings accounts, S1045-S1049, S1082 [2MR]

———eliminate use of education individual retirement accounts for elementary and secondary school expenses and expand school construction and renovation incentives, S922 [29FE], S983-S992 [1MR]

———treatment of contributions of computer technology and equipment to elementary or secondary schools, S993-S996, S1005 [1MR]

———treatment of higher education costs and savings accounts for college expenses, S1008 [1MR]

———use of surplus or tax increases to fund expansion of education individual retirement accounts, S1049-S1054, S1068 [2MR]

Statements

Education Savings Accounts: Vice President Gore, S735 [23FE]

School Construction and Renovation Tax Incentives: Dennis Zimmerman, Congressional Research Service, S986-S988 [1MR]

———William E. Manning, Red Clay, DE, Consolidated School District, S988 [1MR]

Tables

Money income of families—distribution by family characteristics and income level (1997), S1047 [2MR]

Recent school shootings, S1066 [2MR]

Share of aggregate income received by each fifth and top 5 percent of families (1970-1997), S1047 [2MR]

Special education expenditures as reported by selected States, S906 [29FE]

Special education grants to States, S909 [29FE]

Texts of

S. 1134, provisions, S1104-S1111 [2MR]