Number: RS22613
Title: District of Columbia School Reform Proposals: Congress's Possible Role in the Legislative Process
Authors: Eugene Boyd, Government and Finance Division 
Abstract: On January 5, 2007, the newly elected mayor of the District of Columbia, Adrian Fenty, released his legislative proposal to transfer administrative and budgetary control of the District's public schools from the Board of Education to the Office of the Mayor. Under the proposed Education Reform Act, the city council would reorganize the city's authority over the schools, while calling on Congress to amend provisions of the Home Rule Act relating to the District of Columbia School Board structure and to restrictions on the school budget authority. To the extent that Congress sought to legislate beyond these two issues, it could pass legislation implementing any or all other aspects of the proposed act itself.
Pages: 6
Date: March 13, 2007