H.R. 6733 would provide assistance to local educational agencies in areas of the Midwest adversely affected by storms and severe flooding that occurred in May and June, 2008.

== Detailed Summary ==

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(Log inMidwest Schools Disaster Recovery Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to editmake payments to Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin to enable such states to assist their local educational agencies (LEAs) in recovering from the wikisevere storms and beflooding that hit the firstMidwest during the months of May and June, 2008.

Protects such LEAs, that serve major disaster areas due to providethose storms and floods, from experiencing a detailed summaryFY2009 reduction of school improvement funds under part A of title I (Improving the bill!)Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

Authorizes the Secretary to waive or modify the application of maintenance of effort and cost-sharing conditions on the receipt of educational funding by entities in states affected by such disaster.

Directs the Secretary to provide: (1) temporary emergency Impact Aid to states and, through them, to LEAs and Indian schools to enable such LEAs and schools to instruct students displaced by such disaster; and (2) assistance, consistent with the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, to LEAs serving students rendered homeless by such disaster.

Terminates this Act's programs on August 1, 2009.
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== Status of the Legislation ==

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Latest Major Action: 7/31/2008: Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
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