WASHINGTON, D.C. – A rare bipartisan bill in the U.S. House of Representatives would increase federal funding for charter schools by $50 million a year and “streamline and modernize” existing law so charter school operators would have an easier time expanding their existing, high-performing alternative public schools.

EdWeek.org reports the legislation – co-sponsored by Rep. John Kline, R-Minn. and Rep. George Miller, D-Calif.– would consolidate the federal government’s two main charter school programs, which would combine “federal grants to help charter school developers open new schools, with money to help charters find and fix up facilities.”

Charter operators often struggle to find usable and affordable buildings in which to open their alternative public schools. The legislation, the “Success and Opportunity through Quality Charter Schools Act,” would help alleviate that problem.

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The bill would also allow the federal government to help successful charter schools expand, instead of limiting the government’s involvement to the creation of new charters, as the current law requires.

Kline and Miller’s proposal would also “provide incentives for states to help develop charter schools and make it easier for those who operate charters with a track record of success to open more schools,” EdWeek.org reports.

No details are given as to what those “incentives” and rule changes would look like.

The bill also “makes it clear that states can use so-called ‘weighted lotteries,’ meaning that they can give preference to low-income students, racial minorities, and other disadvantaged children in admissions,” EdWeek.org reports.

It would also allow students who are already enrolled in a charter to move on to another one, as they progress through their education. EdWeek.org gives the example of a student who graduates from an elementary charter being allowed to move on to an affiliated middle school charter without going through the lottery system again.

Charter school parents would obviously love that freedom.

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It remains to be seen if this measure will see the light of day in the current U.S. Senate, which has a majority of Democrats who typically bow to the wishes of teachers unions. The unions despise charter schools because they generally do not hire union teachers.

Kline and Miller have supported similar bills in the past, only to see them die quietly with no further legislative action, the news site reports.