{"database": "lobbying", "table": "lobbying_activities", "rows": [[1875099, "63d6f17a-a148-48bf-a2d6-236a1bbcef43", "Q3", "NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE", 48975, "NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE", 2016, "third_quarter", "EDU", "Oppose H.R. 452.\nSupport S. 416\nSupport reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act \nSupport H.R. 1070\nSupport H.R. 242\nSupport HBCUs\nOppose the provision delaying or denying federal student aid to individuals convicted of a minor drug offense.\nSupport legislation to renovate, rehabilitate or repair our nation's public schools.\nOppose HR 970 / S 559.\nSupport S. 1133 / H.R.2087\nOppose the reauthorization of the District of Columbia private school voucher program\nOppose S. 474\nSupport H Res 82\nSupport HR 2731\nSupport HR 3512\nOppose HR 10 / S. 2171;\nSupport the 21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC) \nSupport HR 3201\nOppose rider to any appropriation bill which would prohibit funds being spent by the Department of Education implementing its Gainful Employment regulation\nSupport HR 2521\nOppose riders to any Appropriations bill which may authorize DC Private School Vouchers\nSupport a summit to look into the benefits and current lack of diversity among public school teachers.\nSupport HR 2197 / S 1770\nSupport standardized testing of elementary and high school students; oppose \"opt outs\" be parents\nOppose high stakes testing of elementary and high school students\nComments on ESSA Implementation:  Regulation, guidance, and technical assistance must ensure that low-income communities, communities of color, the disability community, immigrant communities, and tribes are included in decision-making; the Department should propose regulations that ensure that state accountability systems are driven by the performance of groups of students and that support and intervention systems are developed with stakeholders and are implemented to raise achievement for consistently low-performing groups of students; assessments should not be an excuse to provide vulnerable students with lower quality assessments or obscure disparities in student outcomes; If supplement not supplant is to allow greater flexibility in demonstrating compliance, it must presume and ensure an equal base of actual per-pupil funding before any federal funds can be considered supplemental; and all publicly reported data should be available and understandable to students, parents and communities to help inform their participation in decision-making.  The test of regulations, guidance, technical assistance and other implementation activities must be whether or not they advance educational equity and serve the interests of all students.\nOppose private school vouchers.\nComments on ESSA implementation: urge that the regulations and guidance for Title I to promote effective implementation of the foster care provisions of ESSA include guidance for state and local education agencies to ensure effective collaboration with state and local child welfare agencies for timely implementation of these important provisions. \nComments on Juvenile Justice Provisions of ESSA implementation:  urge prompt and appropriate access to a quality education and the success of students involved in and reentering from the juvenile justice system through the development of effective regulations and guidance as well as other activities to fully implement reauthorization of Title I, Part D in ESSA. \nSupport the creation of a centralized complaint system within the Department of Education that accepts complaints about student loans, other aid, and institutions participating in the Title IV program that serves students and promotes accountability.\nSupport robust and meaningful federal regulation in ESSA.\nSupport funding for several programs related to child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking in FY 2017 Labor-HHS-Education funding bill.  $2,000,000 for ED grants for Local Education Agencies Under Title I;\n Support US Department of Education withholding federal student loan money from any school that uses forced arbitration clauses in their enrollment agreements\nSupport the Education Department discharging more quickly and efficiently the federal loans of defrauded students under current regulations and proposing regulations that will make it easier, not harder, for such borrowers to get the relief they are entitled to under existing law.\nSupport HR 4681.\nSupport S. 2491\nSupport federal guidelines for Part A of Section 1010 of the ESSA including definitive, transparent timelines for these interactive processes. \nSupport part D of Title I of ESSA, which addresses prevention and intervention programs for children and youth who are neglected, delinquent, or at-risk.  Federal regulations are necessary to adequately implement this section.  Such regulations should be based on the joint DOJ-Dept. of Education Guidelines on Correctional Education in Juvenile Justice Facilities; the joint DOJ-Department of Education Guidelines on School Climate and School Discipline; and the HHS-Department of Education Policy Statement on Pre-K Suspensions and Expulsions.  \nSupport Dr. John King to be Secretary of Education.\nSupport the Equity in IDEA rule\nOppose efforts to redirect funding from Pell Grants for other purposes as you advance the FY 2017 appropriations process\nSupport the U.S. Department of Education issuing regulations and comprehensive guidance to assist state and local education agencies in not only complying with new data reporting requirements in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), but also encouraging school leaders to make this information accessible, high-quality, and helpful in reducing inequities for disadvantaged students.\nSupport HR 4570\nOppose HR 4901\nSupport rule banning forced arbitration for students victimized by for-profit institutions.\nSupport the Department of Education issuing regulations clarifying the means by which school districts must demonstrate their compliance with the supplement, not supplant requirement in Title I of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)\nSupport timely implementation of proposed gainful employment rules\nSupport proposed DoE / DoJ guidance on Title IX on the rights of trans students in schools\nSupport Department of Educations Office for Civil Rights efforts to combat sexual harassment and violence in schools using Title IX\nSupport Department of Educations initial rules to promulgate ESSA, support strengthening those rules.\nSupport HR 4681\nS 2491\nSupport teacher diversity\nSupport Education Departments Office of Civil Rights Title IX Guidance and enforcement\nSupport HR 5587\nSupport a decrease in the Education Departments n-size threshold from 30 students to 10.\nSupport the Departments proposed rule on arbitration, with the following strengthening amendments:  1.  Presume full loan relief for defrauded borrowers; 2.  Ensure loan relief is automatic when there is sufficient evidence of school wrongdoing;   3.  Make the federal standard for relief a floor, not a ceiling that eliminates current borrower eligibility for relief;  4.  Ensure unscrupulous schools cannot prevent students from holding schools accountable in the courts;  5.  Improve the warnings for students regarding concerns about their school;  6.  Do not impose new time limits on borrower relief; and 7.  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