Sponsors (3)
The bill preserves continuity of targeted services and jobs for a defined group of students with disabilities and their educators, but does so by diverting federal education funds, limiting administrative flexibility, and narrowing competitive procurement.
About 1,600 high-school students with disabilities across 62 schools will keep receiving services from 61 trained educators, preserving continuity of special education supports.
Teachers and the nonprofit contractor retain funding and employment, maintaining training capacity and program continuity for those staff and the contractor.
Families and schools can continue to set individualized goals and action plans for students with disabilities, supporting tailored education outcomes and local planning.
The bill requires reallocating federal education funds to reaward this contract, which could reduce money available for other Department of Education priorities or competitive grants.
Prohibiting cancellation of the contract without Congressional approval limits the Secretary of Education's ability to quickly terminate a poor-performing contract, reducing administrative flexibility.
Directing the reaward to a specific nonprofit reduces competitive procurement, raising potential fairness and value-for-money concerns if better alternatives exist.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the Dept. of Education to reissue and re-award the 'Charting My Path for Future Success' contract within 90 days and bars cancelling it without Congress.
Official title: Direct the Secretary of Education to reissue the solicitation and award the contract relating to the Charting My Path for Future Success project.
Introduced July 23, 2025 by Timothy Michael Kaine · Last progress July 23, 2025
Requires the Secretary of Education to reissue the solicitation and re-award, within 90 days of enactment, the federal contract for the “Charting My Path for Future Success” project to the nonprofit previously awarded that contract. The bill directs the department to continue the program that trains educators to help students with disabilities set goals and develop action plans, notes recent participation levels, and forbids cancelling the reissued contract without Congressional approval.