This bill directs the Department of Education to create guidance for colleges and universities telling them to stop asking about criminal records and juvenile justice involvement on their admission applications. Right now, many schools ask applicants questions about whether they've been arrested, convicted of crimes, or had involvement with the juvenile justice system. This bill says the federal government should recommend that colleges remove these questions from their forms. The idea behind this is to give people with past criminal or juvenile justice involvement a fairer shot at getting into college without being automatically screened out based on their history. It doesn't force schools to remove these questions—it just tells the Department of Education to provide guidance and recommendations encouraging them to do so. This could affect millions of students applying to college, particularly those from communities that have higher rates of involvement with the criminal justice system, by removing a potential barrier to higher education.

Beyond the Box for Higher Education Act of 2023

Schatz, Brian

<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Beyond the Box for Higher Education Act of 2023 This bill requires the Department of Education to issue guidance and recommendations for institutions of higher education to remove criminal and juvenile justice questions from their admission applications.</body></html>