VIDEO RELEASE: “Let Opportunity Scholars SOAR”

SOAR Act restores educational power to D.C. families abandoned by the White House

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today released “Let Opportunity Scholars SOAR” in advance of tomorrow’s committee markup of H.R. 471 – the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results (SOAR) Act. The SOAR Act reauthorizes the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (DCOSP), which ended under pressure from national teachers unions in 2009.

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Speaker John Boehner introduced H.R. 471, the SOAR Act, on January 26, 2011. Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and D.C Subcommittee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-SC are original co-sponsors. Senator Lieberman has introduced companion legislation (S. 206). The DC Subcommittee held a hearing on H.R. 471 and the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) on March 1, 2011. For additional background information, please see Speaker Boehner’s summary of the legislation: http://www.speaker.gov/UploadedFiles/SOAR_Act_Summary.pdf

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