HB31

​Education, Making Education Equal

HB.31

__Sponsers__: Conor O'Callaghan, MO Democrat; Daniel Gretzinger, IL Republican

__Purpose__: The Purpose of this bill is to give all legal citizens between the ages of seven and seventeen an equal chance and right to a school with a sutible amount of supplies and space. Equaltiry for all children in the United States. This only applies for public schools, NOT private schools.

__Eligibility__: HB.31 will apply for all peoples under the age of eighteen and over the age of six taking part in a public school system of the United States of America. This bill will also help the families of the people in the schoool buying helping them with financial needs.

__Terms and Benefits__: 1- Taxes will be raised on households across the United SDtates to help get money to make this bill possible. 2- The money collected from the taxes will go directly to the supplies (such as binders, pencils, computers, rulers, calculators, books, desks, and SmartBoards), land for building the school on, the materials needed for building new schools, and money for paying the teachers who will work at the school. 3- When schools run out of supplies to give to their students, more supplies will be given directly to the families of the students. 4- Land will be bought close to the center of large cities to make transportation easier for students to get to school. 5- People will be hired to build the schools fast and cheap. 6- Public transportation will be set in place to help students get to school faster and safer (includes buses, school zopnes, and parking lots).

__Fiscal Impact__:
 * The price of land per acre is around $1,000. Each school system has over one-hundred acres.
 * The average cost to build a new school with all the supplies necessary for it is between $10 million and $20 million. The school gets more expensive when there are more people in it.
 * Teachers get payed on average between $40,000 and $45,000 per year. They start out making a little more then $30,000 per year, but they gradually make more per year as they stay at the school longer.

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