Investing in Innovation for Education Act of 2015
Latest action · Feb 26, 2015 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 26, 2015
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
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.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 26, 2015 to Mar 25, 2015, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-HI | Brian Schatz | Original | Feb 26, 2015 |
| D-IL | Richard J. Durbin | Mar 16, 2015 | |
| D-DE | Christopher A. Coons | Mar 25, 2015 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 26, 2015Introduced in Senate
- Feb 26, 2015Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 847 | Investing in Innovation for Education Act of 2015 | Related bill | Apr 29, 2015 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- 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
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 26, 2015Introduced in Senate
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