School Overcrowding Reduction Act

School Overcrowding Reduction Act

This bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to award competitive grants to qualifying local educational agencies for activities relating to the construction of a school facility.

In selecting grantees, ED shall prioritize agencies that demonstrate that grant amounts will be used to construct a school facility located within two miles of a school in which the average class size (excluding special education classes) exceeds 25 students.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6002 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6002

 To direct the Secretary of Education to establish a grant program for 
    the construction of schools in overcrowded areas, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 5, 2018

 Mr. Crowley introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Education to establish a grant program for 
    the construction of schools in overcrowded areas, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``School Overcrowding Reduction Act''.

SEC. 2. SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION GRANT PROGRAM.

    (a) Establishment.--Not later than one year after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Education shall establish a 
program (in this section referred to as the ``Program'') under which 
the Secretary may award grants, on a competitive basis, to qualifying 
local educational agencies in accordance with this section.
    (b) Applications.--To be eligible for a grant under the Program, a 
qualifying local educational agency shall submit to the Secretary an 
application at such time, in such form, and containing such information 
as the Secretary may require.
    (c) Grant Uses.--Grant amounts awarded to a qualifying local 
educational agency under the Program shall be used for activities 
relating to the construction of a school facility.
    (d) Priority of Award.--In selecting qualifying local educational 
agencies to receive a grant under the Program, the Secretary shall give 
priority to agencies that demonstrate that grant amounts received will 
be used to construct a school facility in a location that is no more 
than two miles from a school served by the agency in which the average 
class size (excluding special education classes exclusively serving 
children with disabilities as defined in section 602 of the Individuals 
with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1401)) exceeds 25 students.
    (e) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out the Program $10,000,000,000 for fiscal years 
2019 through 2023.
    (f) Qualifying Local Educational Agency Defined.--In this section, 
the term ``qualifying local educational agency'' means a local 
educational agency (as that term is defined in section 8101 of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801)) that--
            (1) is a recipient of funds under title I of such Act (20 
        U.S.C. 6301 et seq.); and
            (2) has a service area with respect to which--
                    (A) the aggregate average class size (excluding 
                special education classes exclusively serving children 
                with disabilities as defined in section 602 of the 
                Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 
                1401)) exceeds 23 students; or
                    (B) more than 20 percent of students are assigned 
                to a class with more than 30 students.
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