125th Morrison Congress

2nd Session

S 125-009

Title of the Bill: Education Equality Act

Main Author(s): Sen. Justin Hung (D-CA) Sen. Priscilla Yang (D-NY)

Co-Sponsor(s): Rep. Ashley Lin (D-CA) Rep. Yaelle Lee (D-WA)

BE IT ENACTED BY THE MORRISON CONGRESS

1 SECTION 1: Findings
2 Congress makes the following findings:
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4 1) California has the largest number of illegal immigrants in the United States,
5 with an estimated 2.4 million unauthorized immigrants making up about 6.3
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7 percent of the states total population.
8 2) 40,000 children between 3 and 17-year-olds are undocumented.
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10 3) African American students missed 10% or more of the school year at almost
11 four times the rate of all students. Some suggests that these students may
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encounter a number of issues that make it hard to go to school, such as
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14 health, transportation, and family income problems.
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4) Truancy rates for students from low-income backgrounds were
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17 disproportionately higher than for their more affluent peers during the 2013-
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20 5) About 1 in 5 students were truant in the year 2014.
21 6) Of all students with severe attendance problems, defined as missing 36 days
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23 or more, about 90% were low-income.
24 7) In California, there are about 2,572,327 people with no high school degree.
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26 8) In 2013, 55 percent of students in California public school were low income.
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28 SECTION 2: Purpose
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30 We plan to have more government spending on creating better, accessible, and
31 higher quality education for all people in America in public institutions. To do this we
32 plan to use government spending on creating more, quality online schools where the
33 cost will be cheaper than private institutions.
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36 SECTION 3: General Provisions
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38 To ensure no students are discriminated against and limited from learning.
39 To ensure that students of all races are given the quality education they need.
40 To ensure even students from low income families are provided same quality
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42 To ensure that public institutions are provided with the best education possible.
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SECTION 4: Definitions
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CDE: California Department of Education
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ESSA: Every Student Succeeds Act: A US law passed in December 2015 that
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52 CDS: County District School
53 CMT: California Department of Education Monitoring Tool
54 SEF: Southern Education Foundation
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Works Cited:

https://www.cde.ca.gov/Fg/aa/co/ca16sinsaai.asp
http://laschoolreport.com/know-your-rights-california-education-advocates-want-to-make-sure-
you-know-you-can-stay-in-school/
https://www.edpolicyinca.org/publications/supporting-continuous-improvement-californias-
education-system
http://www.dailywire.com/news/15910/how-many-students-california-have-illegal-james-barrett#
http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-truancy-20140912-story.html
https://edsource.org/2015/report-low-income-black-disabled-students-miss-school-more-
often/85917
http://www.southerneducation.org/getattachment/4ac62e27-5260-47a5-9d02-14896ec3a531/A-
New-Majority-2015-Update-Low-Income-Students-Now.aspx