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The bill provides immediate financial support to families and promotes targeted remediation and better closure planning to sustain student learning, but risks diverting limited Title I resources, increasing taxpayer and administrative costs, and creating fraud and labor-relations complications.
Parents of students at Title I schools receive direct per-student, per-day payments when a covered school is closed >3 days, giving families immediate funds to pay for tutoring, curriculum, or online learning so students can keep learning during short-term closures.
Low-income students, students of color, English learners, and students with low math scores could benefit from targeted catch-up and remediation programs if policymakers use reported learning-loss findings to prioritize funding and interventions.
Local education agencies (LEAs) must create a formal 'failure to open' payment plan before the next school year, improving preparedness and planning for temporary closures.
Students at Title I schools could lose school operating resources (teachers, services) if daily parental payments are paid out of limited Title I funding, reducing supports when schools reopen.
Taxpayers could face higher federal and local education spending if lawmakers fund large-scale remediation or extended learning programs in response to reported learning losses.
LEAs and school districts must administer, track, and audit daily payments and receipts, imposing new administrative burdens and costs on schools and local education offices.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Requires Title I districts to pay parents a per-student, per-day amount if a Title I school is closed more than three days for a public health emergency or collective bargaining action.
Introduced March 11, 2026 by Tim Scott · Last progress March 11, 2026
Requires school districts that receive Title I funds to create a “failure to open direct payment plan” that pays parents a per-student, per-day amount if a Title I school is closed more than three days in a school year because of a public health emergency or a collective bargaining action. Payments must equal the covered per-student per-day funding, be made as practicable on each missed day, and parents must provide receipts or return unused funds within 30 days after in-person instruction resumes.