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The bill preserves continuous educator training and prevents abrupt service cuts for students with disabilities, but does so by restricting cancellation and reprocurement flexibility—concentrating funding and potentially locking in underperformance while limiting competitive oversight.
Students with disabilities and the teachers who serve them in 62 high schools will continue receiving educator training and support (helping set goals and monitor progress), maintaining services for about 1,600 students and 61 educators.
Schools and communities gain program stability because the contract cannot be cancelled without Congress, reducing the risk of abrupt service disruptions.
Students, taxpayers, and other providers may be harmed because the statutory reaward and prohibition on cancellation could lock federal funds to a single nonprofit, limiting competition and opportunities for other organizations.
Taxpayers and local governments could be stuck with underperforming services since the Secretary’s ability to respond to performance problems or reallocate funds is constrained by the reaward/cancellation restriction.
Nonprofits, taxpayers, and the procurement process face higher risk because the 90-day forced reaward timeline may rush procurement, reducing competitive review and oversight quality for a major education contract.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the Education Secretary to reissue and re-award a contract for a nonprofit program training educators to help students with disabilities set goals and track progress, and bars cancellation without Congress.
Requires the Education Secretary to reissue the solicitation and re-award a specific contract for a nonprofit project that trains educators to help students with disabilities set goals, make action plans, and monitor progress. The Secretary must do this within 90 days of enactment and may not cancel the reissued contract without Congress approving the cancellation.
Introduced July 23, 2025 by Timothy Michael Kaine · Last progress July 23, 2025