Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case f…
The Rebuild America’s Schools Act of 2026 authorizes federal funding and tax incentives to modernize, repair, and decarbonize public school facilities.
It creates a $20 billion per-year competitive grant program for 2027–2031, restores and expands tax-credit and qualified zone academy bonds, sets allowable and prohibited uses, requires state planning, data collection, and reporting, and adds targeted programs (impact aid increase and pyrrhotite foundation repair).
The bill includes green building, Buy America, hazard-resilience, and labor-standard provisions and establishes an Office of School Infrastructure and Sustainability in the Department of Education.
Programmatic merits and bipartisan interest in school infrastructure help, but scale, budget cost, tax complexity, and policy riders reduce chances.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a substantive policy measure that is well-constructed: it clearly defines purpose and problems, specifies allocation formulas and priorities, amends the tax code with detailed bond rules, authorizes multi-year funding levels for the principal grant program, and embeds reporting, data, and oversight structures.
Left emphasizes equity, health, and decarbonization benefits.
Left emphasizes equity, health, and decarbonization benefits.
Generally very supportive.
Sees the bill as a large, equity-focused federal investment to repair unsafe, underfunded schools and advance climate and health objectives.
Appreciates priorities for high-poverty districts, green retrofits, Buy America, DBE contracting goals, and worker protections in bond projects.
Cautiously supportive.
Values the infrastructure investment, reporting requirements, and targeted help for high-need districts, but worries about program complexity, fiscal cost, and administrative capacity at state and local levels.
Prefers clear oversight, phased implementation, and measurable outcomes.
Skeptical to opposed.
Views the bill as a large expansion of federal control and spending in an area traditionally managed locally.
Concerns focus on cost, mandates (green standards, Buy America), charter restrictions, and complexity of new federal programs and bond rules.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Programmatic merits and bipartisan interest in school infrastructure help, but scale, budget cost, tax complexity, and policy riders reduce chances.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Left emphasizes equity, health, and decarbonization benefits.
Programmatic merits and bipartisan interest in school infrastructure help, but scale, budget cost, tax complexity, and policy riders reduce…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a substantive policy measure that is well-constructed: it clearly defines purpose and problems, specifies allocation formulas and priorities, amends the tax code w…
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