HR 565 · 114th Congress 2015–2017, ended

Stepping Up to STEM Education Act

Introduced Jan 27, 2015 Originated House Sponsor Michael M. Honda D-CA

Latest action · Apr 29, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.

Progress

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IntroducedJan 27, 2015
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Stepping Up to STEM Education Act

Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Education within the Department of Education to pursue breakthrough research and development in educational technology and to facilitate the effective use of that technology to improve student achievement.

Directs the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to state-based science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science (STEM) networks or similar organizations of STEM stakeholders to increase students' achievement in the STEM disciplines in elementary and secondary schools and in out of school and afterschool programs.

Includes among grant uses:

testing, sharing, and scaling up STEM education research, promising practices, and exemplary programs;
identifying state STEM education weaknesses and prioritizing strategies to address them;
implementing rigorous career and college ready standards in STEM education;
developing and implementing innovative STEM assessments that measure student progress toward those career and college ready standards;
promoting and developing pre- and in-service STEM teacher training;
developing STEM career pathways and workforce education and training programs that reflect 21st century workforce needs;
facilitating the implementation of expanded STEM learning opportunities on school sites; and
promoting, supporting, and designing programs that develop STEM content coaches and master educators in order to strengthen core competencies of the classroom practitioner.

Requires grantees to conduct periodic independent evaluations of their effectiveness in accomplishing those activities.

Prohibits the Secretary from: (1) endorsing or approving any STEM curriculum designed for use in an elementary school, secondary school, or institution of higher education; or (2) requiring a state, local educational agency, or school to adopt a specific STEM program or instructional materials.

Cosponsors 20

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 27, 2015 to Sep 12, 2016; 11 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal	Original	Jan 27, 2015
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	Jan 27, 2015
D-RI	David N. Cicilline	Original	Jan 27, 2015
D-MP	Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan	Original	Jan 27, 2015
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks	Original	Jan 27, 2015
D-CA	Jackie Speier	Original	Jan 27, 2015
D-CA	Judy Chu	Original	Jan 27, 2015
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard	Original	Jan 27, 2015
D-WI	Mark Pocan	Original	Jan 27, 2015
D-CA	Mark Takano	Original	Jan 27, 2015
D-OH	Tim Ryan	Original	Jan 27, 2015
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Feb 4, 2015
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Feb 4, 2015
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Feb 4, 2015
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		Feb 24, 2015
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Apr 14, 2015
D-WA	Rick Larsen		May 12, 2015
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Nov 30, 2015
D-IL	Bill Foster		Dec 8, 2015
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Sep 12, 2016

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Education and Workforce Committee	Referred Jan 27, 2015
	Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee	Referred Apr 29, 2015
	Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee	Referred Apr 29, 2015

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Apr 29, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Apr 29, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Jan 27, 2015Introduced in House
Jan 27, 2015Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: section 8 of article I of the Constitution

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 13, January 27, 2015, page H640.

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To stimulate collaboration with respect to, and provide for coordination and coherence of, the Nation's science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education initiatives, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Stepping Up to STEM Education Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jan 27, 2015Introduced in House

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