Today Congresswomen Suzanne Bonamici and Rosa DeLauro introduced the Championing Honest and Responsible Transparency in Education Reform (CHARTER) Act, legislation that would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to ensure funds made available under these Acts are not awarded to charter schools that enter into contracts with a for-profit entity for operating, overseeing, or managing the charter school.
Work to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act so charter schools that contract with for-profit entities for operating, overseeing, or managing them cannot receive federal funds.
Occurrences
I’m grateful to be leading this initiative with Rep. DeLauro to keep student funding in public schools where it belongs.
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to ensure no funds made available under such Acts may be awarded to a charter school or charter management organization that enters into a contract with a for-profit entity for operating, overseeing, or managing the charter school, and for other purposes.
Evidence
Bonamici's official education page lists "Bonamici, DeLauro Introduce Legislation to Rein in For-Profit Charter Schools"; the post says the CHARTER Act would change ESEA and IDEA to bar federal funding from for-profit charter schemes.
Assessments
Bonamici appears to have taken a concrete step toward the promise by introducing the CHARTER Act to amend ESEA and IDEA so for-profit-managed charter schools could not receive federal funds. But the available evidence shows introduction only, not enactment or implementation of the promised funding ban. Because she remains in federal office and the outcome could still be achieved in a later Congress, this is better scored as unresolved rather than delivered or never.