Sponsors (3)
The bill preserves a narrowly targeted disability-support program and related jobs for about 1,600 students and 61 educators, but does so by earmarking federal education funds and limiting agency flexibility and competition, trading broader funding flexibility and procurement openness for program continuity.
About 1,600 high-school students with disabilities across 62 schools (and their families and school teams) keep access to trained educators and ongoing individualized goal-setting and action-plan services, avoiding a disruption in supports they rely on.
Sixty-one trained educators and the nonprofit contractor retain funding and program continuity, preserving jobs, training capacity, and nonprofit revenue streams tied to the contract.
Federal education funds will be reallocated to this specific contract, which could reduce funding available for other Department of Education priorities or competitive grants.
The Secretary of Education would be barred from cancelling the contract without Congressional approval, limiting the Department's ability to terminate a poor-performing contract quickly.
Directing a reaward to a particular nonprofit reduces competitive procurement and could raise concerns about fairness, best value, or missed opportunities for other providers to offer better outcomes.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the Secretary of Education to reissue and re-award, within 90 days, a previously awarded contract for an educator training project serving students with disabilities and bars cancelling it without Congress.
Introduced July 23, 2025 by Timothy Michael Kaine · Last progress July 23, 2025
Requires the Secretary of Education to reissue and re-award, within 90 days of enactment, a previously awarded federal contract for an educator training project that helps students with disabilities set goals, create action plans, and monitor progress. The bill cites recent program activity (61 trained educators assisting about 1,600 high school students across multiple LEAs) and bars cancelling the reissued contract without Congressional approval.