XXXX Voted for $25 Million for American History Education. In June 2003, XXXX voted for a bill that would authorize $25 million annually from fiscal 2004 through fiscal 2007 for grants to be awarded to colleges, universities and other educational institutions to establish academies for teachers and students on American history and civics. The grants would be awarded by the chairperson of the National Endowment for the Humanities. [S 504, Vote 231, 6/20/03] XXXX Voted Against Protecting Equal Access to Schools for the Boy Scouts. XXXX, on June 14, 2001, voted against the Boxer amendment to S.1, which was an amendment to provide that public elementary or secondary schools and local or state educational agencies may not deny specified youth groups, such as the Boy Scouts, access to meet after school in a designated open forum based on their position on sexual orientation. [S 1, Vote 191, 6/14/01] XXXX Supported Preventing Federal Education Funds from Being Spent on Schools That Bar the Boy Scouts. XXXX, on June 14, 2001, voted for the Helms amendment to S.1, which was an amendment to prevent federal education funds from being withheld from public elementary and secondary schools that bar the Boy Scouts from using school facilities because of the organization’s exclusion of homosexuals. [Senate S 1, Vote 189, 6/14/01; Associated Press, 06/14/01] XXXX Voted to Allow Localities to Consolidate 21st Century Schools Program in Return for Increased Accountability. In 2001, XXXX voted to allow State and local governments that participate in the Performance Agreement (Straight A's) pilot program to include the 21st Century Schools Program among the programs that would be consolidated in return for increased accountability for student progress. The amendment was rejected, 47-51. [S 1, Vote 184, 6/13/01] XXXX Voted to Call for Students to Be Taught Arguments For and Against Evolution. In 2001, XXXX voted for an amendment to the Better Education for Students and Teachers Act of 2001 to express the sense of the Senate that "good science education should prepare students to distinguish the data or testable theories of science from philosophical or religious claims that are made in the name of science" and that "where biological evolution is taught, the curriculum should help students to understand why this subject generates so much continuing controversy, and should prepare the students to be informed participants in public discussions regarding the subject." The amendment was agreed to, 91-8. [S 1, Vote 182, 6/13/01] XXXX Voted to Allow States To Use Grants To Teach Parents How To Educate Infants And Toddlers. In 2001, XXXX voted to allow states to spend federal money to teach parents how to educate their children before the children are old enough to attend school, from birth to 5 years of age. The vote was on an amendment to the Better Education for Students and Teachers Act of 2001. [S 1, Vote 177, 6/11/01; Congressional Quarterly Daily Monitor, 6/11/01] XXXX Opposed $500 Million for Reading First Program. XXXX, on May 16, 2001, was of one of 30 senators to vote against the Reed amendment to S.1, which was an amendment to authorize an additional $500 million in Fiscal Year 2002 and in each of the next six fiscal years under the Reading First Program for school library improvements in schools with the highest poverty rates. [S 1, Vote 106, 5/16/01] XXXX Voted To Increase Funding For Education Research. In 2000, XXXX voted for an amendment that would increase funding for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI)--the research arm of the Department of Education--by $10 million and would earmark $20 million of total OERI funding for the Interagency Education Research Initiative (IERI) in order to fully fund the Department of Education's share of IERI. The funding increase would be offset by reducing funds for the administrative and related expenses of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Education by $10 million. The amendment was agreed to, 98-0. [Vote 161, 6/29/00] XXXX Voted To Permit Funding For Same-Gender Schools. In 2000, XXXX voted for an amendment that would add that the funds provided in title VI (for innovative and creative approaches to public education; this bill 84