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Learning Opportunities Created At Local Level Act
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Learning Opportunities Created At Local Level Act or the LOCAL Level Act Expresses the sense of Congress that state and local prerogatives over elementary and secondary education need to be preserved. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to prohibit any federal officer or employee from directly or indirectly, through grants, contracts, or other cooperative agreements under the ESEA: mandating, directing, or controlling a state's, local educational agency's (LEA's), or school's specific instructional content, academic standards, assessments, curriculum, or program of instruction; incentivizing such an entity's adoption of any specific instructional content, academic standards, assessments, curriculum, or program of instruction; mandating a state or any subdivision thereof to spend any funds or incur any costs not paid for under the ESEA; or conditioning the availability of financial support on a state's, LEA's, or school's adoption of any specific instructional content, academic standards, assessments, curriculum, or program of instruction, even if such conditions are specified under any other Act. Prohibits any funds provided to the Department of Education under the ESEA from being used by the Department directly or indirectly, through grants, contracts, or other cooperative agreements, to endorse, approve, develop, require, or sanction any elementary or secondary school curriculum. Prohibits conditioning any state's receipt of ESEA assistance on the approval or certification of its academic standards by the federal government. Includes in the prohibition against the use of ESEA funds on federally sponsored testing and testing materials such use on any assessment or testing materials aligned to the Common Core State Standards or any other academic standards common to a significant number of states. Prohibits the use of Race to the Top funds, provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, on such aligned assessment or testing materials.
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2015 · second_quarter · Education
Protection of home education from government regulation - meetings with Members of Congress and their staff to talk about homeschooling success and to ask Congress to "leave us alone." Meetings with Members of Congress and staff about protecting homeschool freedom in the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, introduced in the House as H.R. 5, the Student Success Act, and in the Senate as S. 1177, the Every Child Achieves Act. We urged Congress to include the protective language for homeschools already codified in 20 U.S.C. 7886. This language was included, as well as language protecting state autonomy in certain education decisions, including over whether or not to adopt the Common Core. HSLDA is supportive of these sections giving states local control over education, and is neutral on H.R. 5 and S. 1177 overall. Opposition to the Common Core State Standards Initiative ("Common Core") due to the federal coercion on states to adopt the Common Core, and also due to the Common Core moving to nationalize education. Briefing Members of Congress and their staff about our concerns. Asking Members on the House and Senate Appropriations Committee to defund any federal funding for Common Core, as well as fully defund Race to the Top. HSLDA supports S. 182, the LOCAL Level Act, and S. 73, the Local Control of Education Act. We urged the Senate to include this language in the Senate ESEA reauthorization bill, and in the Senate Budget Resolution. HSLDA also strongly opposes more federal involvement in early education, and continues to meet with Members of Congress and their staff to oppose any expansion in this area in the House and Senate ESEA reauthorization bills. HSLDA also fought for student privacy in the annual National Defense Authorization Act in the House, H.R. 1735. Section 574 in the House NDAA included a provision directing the DOD to conduct a feasibility study on whether the DOD should track children of DOD military and civilian employees by where they are educated. HSLDA believes that this will threaten the privacy of homeschool families in the military. We oppose Section 574, and were successful in keeping it out of the Senate's version of the NDAA. We will work to make sure Section 574 in the House-passed NDAA is removed during the conference committee.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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Client expense: $50,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Education, Dept of, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2015 · first_quarter · Education
Protection of home education from government regulation - meetings with Members of Congress and their staff to talk about homeschooling success and to ask Congress to "leave us alone." Meetings with Members of Congress and staff about protecting homeschool freedom in the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, introduced as H.R. 5, the Student Success Act. We urged Congress to include the protective language for homeschools already codified in 20 U.S.C. 7886. This language was included, as well as language protecting state autonomy in certain education decisions, including over whether or not to adopt the Common Core. HSLDA is supportive of these sections giving states local control over education, and is neutral on H.R. 5 overall. Opposition to the Common Core State Standards Initiative ("Common Core") due to the federal coercion on states to adopt the Common Core, and also due to the Common Core moving to nationalize education. Briefing Members of Congress and their staff about our concerns. Asking Members on the House and Senate Appropriations Committee to defund any federal funding for Common Core, as well as fully defund Race to the Top. HSLDA supported S. 182, the LOCAL Level Act, and S. 73, the Local Control of Education Act. We urged the Senate to include this language in the Senate ESEA reauthorization bill, and in the Senate Budget Resolution. HSLDA filed public comments against proposed regulations by the U.S. Department of Education concerning teacher training. The regulations would reach further into state and local education by requiring state and private teacher training programs to meet certain standards as a condition for states receiving federal education funds, while demanding more detailed data from states and private colleges on these programs. The proposed regulation can be found at 79 FR 71819.
Client expense: $40,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Education, Dept of, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2015 · first_quarter · Education
H.R. 5, Student Success Act: Reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act with improvements restricting federal promotion of the Common Core, prohibiting dispensing emergency contraception at school based health clinics, and affirming religious expression in schools. S.182, Learning Opportunities At the Local Level Act: Prevents forced adoption of Common Core educational standards. S.73, Local Control of Education Act: Prevents forced adoption of Common Core educational standards.
Client expense: $10,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
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| Kelly Ayotte | Republican | NH |
| Marco Rubio | Republican | FL |
| Rand Paul | Republican | KY |
| Rob Portman | Republican | OH |
| Shelley Moore Capito | Republican | WV |