Date: August 12, 1992
Subject: Neighborhood Schools Improvement Act
Description: Armey (R-TX) amendment in the nature of a substitute to authorize $700 million in fiscal 1992 and such sums as necessary for fiscal years 1993 through 2001 for state and local school reform activities. The substitute would require that 25 percent of a school district's grant be used for school choice programs that included private schools; allow school districts to use the grants to fund New American Schools, merit schools and site-based management that emphasized alternative certification; and require each Governor to chair a state panel on education reform. But it would not formally create the National Educational Goals Panel.
Result: Amendment Rejected, 80-328
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