Political Quotes

“I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill add the following: TITLE VIII--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS SEC. 801. STUDY AND REPORT. (a) Study.--The Secretary shall conduct a study on-- (1) the use of State educational agencies to monitor, supervise, or control underperforming local educational agencies; and (2) whether equal educational opportunities are being provided to students in the local educational agencies described in paragraph (1), and the impact the use of State educational agencies as described in such paragraph would have on such opportunities. (b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall report to Congress the results of the study conducted under subsection (a). Such report shall include recommendations regarding-- (1) the advisability of authorizing a State educational agency to close a local educational agency over the opposition of a locally elected school board; and (2) best practices governing the exercise of authority by a State educational agency in monitoring, supervising, and controlling underperforming local educational agencies, with particular emphasis on rural local educational agencies and urban local educational agencies that are disproportionately minority. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 303, the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms.…”