A bill to extend the educational flexibility program under section 4 of the Education Flexibility Partnership Act of 1999.

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Authorizes the Secretary of Education to carry out the educational flexibility (Ed-Flex) program to allow states that were in the program on September 30, 2004, to continue to waive statutory and regulatory requirements applicable to certain federally-funded education programs until the reauthorization of part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

[109th Congress Public Law 211]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


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Public Law 109-211
109th Congress

                                 An Act


 
  To extend the educational flexibility program under section 4 of the 
    Education Flexibility Partnership Act of 1999. <<NOTE: Mar. 24, 
                          2006 -  [S. 2363]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. <<NOTE: 20 USC 5891b note.>> EDUCATIONAL FLEXIBILITY PROGRAM 
            EXTENSION.

    (a) Extension Authority.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Secretary of Education is authorized to carry out the 
educational flexibility program under section 4 of the Education 
Flexibility Partnership Act of 1999 (20 U.S.C. 5891b), until the date of 
enactment of an Act that reauthorizes programs under part A of title I 
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 et 
seq.), for any State that was an Ed-Flex Partnership State on September 
30, 2004.
    (b) Designation.--
            (1) In general.--Any designation of a State as an Ed-Flex 
        Partnership State that was in effect on September 30, 2004, 
        shall be extended until the date of enactment of an Act that 
        reauthorizes programs under part A of title I of the Elementary 
        and Secondary Education Act of 1965, if the Secretary of 
        Education makes the determination described in paragraph (2).
            (2) Determination.--The determination referred to in 
        paragraph (1) is a determination that the performance of the 
        State educational agency, in carrying out the programs for which 
        the State has received a waiver under the educational 
        flexibility program, justifies the extension of the designation.

    Approved March 24, 2006.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 2363:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 152 (2006):
            Mar. 2, considered and passed Senate.
            Mar. 14, considered and passed House.

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