US SB605 | 2015-2016 | 114th Congress
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: Introduced on February 26 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-26 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on February 26 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-26 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
Investing in Innovation for Education Act of 2015 Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to local educational agencies (LEAs), educational service agencies, and nonprofit organizations to support the school innovation efforts of public schools and LEAs. Requires at least 25% of the grant funds to be awarded for projects in rural areas. Requires each grant applicant to demonstrate that it has partnered with at least one private, nonprofit, community-based, or governmental entity that will provide matching funds. Allows the Secretary to waive the matching funds requirement upon a showing of exceptional circumstances. Requires each grant to be used to address at least one of the following areas of school innovation: improving the effectiveness of teachers and school leaders and promoting their equitable distribution, strengthening the use of data to improve education, providing high-quality instruction that is based on rigorous academic content standards and measuring students' proficiency using high-quality assessments that are aligned to those standards, turning around the lowest-performing schools, and any other area of school innovation the Secretary chooses. Directs the Secretary to establish performance measures for tracking each grantee's progress in: (1) improving the academic performance of public elementary and secondary school students, and specified subgroups of those students; and (2) implementing its project in rural schools, as applicable. Requires grantees to use grant funds to develop or expand strategies to improve high-need students' showing on those performance measures.
Title
Investing in Innovation for Education Act of 2015
Sponsors
Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO] | Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI] | Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL] | Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE] |
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2015-02-26 | Senate | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. |
Same As/Similar To
HB847 (Related) 2015-04-29 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Subjects
Academic performance and assessments
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Performance measurement
Rural conditions and development
Science and engineering education
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Performance measurement
Rural conditions and development
Science and engineering education
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
US Congress State Sources
Type | Source |
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Summary | https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/605/all-info |
Text | https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s605/BILLS-114s605is.pdf |