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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · H.R. 4366 (Referred in Senate) — To strengthen the Federal education research system to make research and evaluations more timely and relevant to Stat... · Sec. 401

Sec. 401. Research and evaluation

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The Institute of Education Sciences shall be the primary entity for conducting research on and evaluations of Federal education programs within the Department of Education to ensure the rigor and independence of such research and evaluation. Notwithstanding any other provision of law in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. et seq. 6301 et seq.) related to evaluation, the Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences— may, for purposes of carrying out the activities described in paragraph (2)(B)— reserve not more than 0.5 percent of the total amount of funds appropriated for each program authorized under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), other than part A of title I of such Act (20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.) and section 1501 of such Act ( 20 U.S.C. 6491 ); and reserve, in the manner described in subparagraph (B), an amount equal to not more than 0.1 percent of the total amount of funds appropriated for— part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq. ); and section 1501 of such Act ( 20 U.S.C. 6491 ); and in reserving the amount described in subparagraph (A)(ii)— shall reserve up to the total amount of funds appropriated for section 1501 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 6491 ); and may, in a case in which the total amount of funds appropriated for such section 1501 (20 U.S.C. 6491) is less than the amount described in subparagraph (A)(ii), reserve the amount of funds appropriated for part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq. ) that is needed for the sum of the total amount of funds appropriated for such section 1501 ( 20 U.S.C. 6491 ) and such amount of funds appropriated for such part A of title I ( 20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq. ) to equal the amount described in subparagraph (A)(ii).
If funds are reserved under paragraph (1)— neither the Secretary of Education nor the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences shall— carry out evaluations under section 1501 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6491); or reserve funds for evaluation activities under section 3111(c)(1)(C) of such Act ( 20 U.S.C. 6821 ); and the Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences— shall use the funds reserved under paragraph
(1)to carry out high-quality evaluations (consistent with the requirements of section 173(a) of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 ( 20 U.S.C. 9563(a) ), as amended by this Act, and the evaluation plan described in subsection
(c)of this section) of programs authorized under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.); and may use the funds reserved under paragraph
(1)to— increase the usefulness of the evaluations conducted under clause
(i)to promote continuous improvement of programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq. ); or assist grantees of such programs in collecting and analyzing data and other activities related to conducting high-quality evaluations under clause (i). The Secretary of Education or the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences shall disseminate evaluation findings, consistent with section 114(j) of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 ( 20 U.S.C. 9514(j) ), as amended by this Act, of evaluations carried out under paragraph (2)(B)(i). The Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences— may consolidate the funds reserved under paragraph
(1)for purposes of carrying out the activities under paragraph (2)(B); and shall not be required to evaluate under paragraph (2)(B)(i) each program authorized under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq. ) each year. The Director of the Institute of Education Sciences, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, shall, on a biennial basis, develop, submit to Congress, and make publicly available an evaluation plan, that— describes the specific activities that will be carried out under subsection (b)(2)(B) for the 2-year period applicable to the plan, and the timelines of such activities; contains the results of the activities carried out under subsection (b)(2)(B) for the most recent 2-year period; and describes how programs authorized under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.) will be regularly evaluated. Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect section 173(b) of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 ( 20 U.S.C. 9563(b) ), as amended by this Act.
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Sec. 401
Research and evaluation
U.S.C.§ 6301
U.S.C.§ 6311
U.S.C.§ 6491
U.S.C.§ 6821
U.S.C.§ 9563
U.S.C.§ 9514
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