Sec. 5201. Investing in innovation
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Part B of title V ( 20 U.S.C. 7221 et seq. ) is amended to read as follows: The purposes of this part are to— fund the identification, development, evaluation, and expansion of innovative, research- and evidence-based practices, programs, and strategies in order to significantly— increase student academic achievement and close achievement gaps; increase high school graduation rates; increase college enrollment readiness and rates of college enrollment; improve teacher and school leader effectiveness; and improve school readiness and strengthen collaboration and coordination among elementary schools and early childhood care and education; and support the rapid development, expansion, adoption, and implementation of tools and resources that improve the efficiency, effectiveness, or pace of adoption of such educational practices, programs, and strategies.
The Secretary may reserve not more than 30 percent of the funds appropriated under section 3(u) for each fiscal year to carry out the activities of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Education established under section 221 of the Department of Education Organization Act, except that the amount so reserved for any fiscal year shall not exceed $100,000,000. The Secretary may reserve not more than 5 percent of the funds appropriated under section 3(u) for any fiscal year to carry out activities of national significance.
Such activities may include— capacity-building; technical assistance; dissemination of best practices developed with grant funds provided under this part; and carrying out prize awards consistent with section 24 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 ( 15 U.S.C. 3719 ). Funds for the activities described in subsection (a), and for prize awards under subsection (b)(4), shall be available until expended. From amounts made available to carry out this part and not reserved under section 5202 for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall award grants, on a competitive basis, to eligible entities.
In this part, the term eligible entity means— a local educational agency or a consortium of local educational agencies; or a partnership between a nonprofit organization or an educational service agency and— 1 or more local educational agencies; or a consortium of public schools. The Secretary— shall award grants under this part for a period of not more than 3 years; and may extend such grants for an additional 2-year period if the grantee demonstrates to the Secretary that it is making significant progress on the program performance measures identified in section 5206.
The Secretary shall ensure that not less than 22 percent of the funds awarded under subsection
(a)for any fiscal year are for projects that meet both of the following requirements, except that the Secretary shall not be required to make such awards unless a sufficient number of otherwise eligible high quality applications are received: The eligible entity includes— a local educational agency with an urban-centric district locale code of 32, 33, 41, 42, or 43, as determined by the Secretary; a consortium of such local educational agencies; or if the applicant is a partnership, an educational service agency or a nonprofit organization with demonstrated expertise in serving students from rural areas. A majority of the schools to be served by the project are designated with a school locale code of 41, 42, or 43, or a combination of such codes, as determined by the Secretary, and— are served by a local educational agency in which 20 percent or more of the children ages 5 through 17 years old are from families with incomes below the poverty line; are served by a local educational agency in which the total number of students in average daily attendance at all of the schools served by the local educational agency is fewer than 600; or are served by a local educational agency located in a county that has a total population density of fewer than 10 persons per square mile. In awarding grants under this part, the Secretary shall give priority to an eligible entity that includes, in its application under section 5204, a plan to— address the needs of high-need local educational agencies; improve school readiness; or address the unique learning needs of students who are children with disabilities or English learners. The Secretary shall set standards for the quality of evidence that an applicant shall provide in order to demonstrate that the activities it proposes to carry out with funds under this part are likely to succeed in improving student outcomes, including, where applicable, academic achievement and graduation rates. These standards shall include the following: Strong evidence that the activities proposed by the applicant will have a statistically significant effect on student outcomes. Moderate evidence that the activities proposed by the applicant will improve outcomes. A rationale based on research findings or a reasonable hypothesis that the activities proposed by the applicant will improve student outcomes. The Secretary shall ensure that not less than one-half of the funds awarded under subsection
(a)for any fiscal year are for projects that— meet an evidence standard described in paragraph
(2)or
(3)of subsection (e); and do not meet the evidence standard described in paragraph
(1)of such subsection. The Secretary shall not be required to make the awards described in paragraph
(1)unless a sufficient number of otherwise eligible high-quality applications are received. Each eligible entity that desires to receive a grant under this part shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may reasonably require. At a minimum, each application shall— describe the project for which the applicant is seeking a grant and how the evidence supporting that project meets the standards of evidence established by the Secretary under section 5203(e); describe how the applicant will address at least 1 of the areas described in section 5205(a)(1); provide an estimate of the number of children that the applicant plans to serve under the proposed project, including the percentage of those children who are from low-income families; demonstrate that the applicant has established 1 or more partnerships with public or private organizations and that the partner or partners will provide matching funds, except that the Secretary may waive the matching funds requirement on a case-by-case basis, upon a showing of exceptional circumstances; describe the applicant’s plan for continuing the proposed project after funding under this part ends; if the applicant is a local educational agency— document the local educational agency’s record during the previous 3 years in— increasing student achievement, including achievement for each subgroup of students described in section 1111(a)(2)(B)(x); and closing achievement gaps; and demonstrate how the local educational agency has made significant improvements in other outcomes, as applicable, on the performance measures described in section 5206; if the applicant is a partnership that includes a nonprofit organization or educational service agency, provide evidence that the nonprofit organization or educational service agency has helped at least 1 school or local educational agency, during the previous 3 years, significantly— increase student achievement, including achievement for each subgroup of students described in section 1111(a)(2)(B)(x); and close achievement gaps; provide a description of the applicant’s plan for independently evaluating the effectiveness of activities carried out with funds under this part; provide an assurance that the applicant will— cooperate with evaluations, as requested by the Secretary; make data available to third parties for validation and further study; and participate in communities of practice; and if the applicant is a partnership that includes a nonprofit organization or educational service agency that intends to make subgrants, consistent with section 5205(b), provide an assurance that the applicant will apply paragraphs
(1)through (9), as appropriate, in its selection of subgrantees and in its oversight of those subgrants. Each eligible entity that receives a grant under this part shall carry out the following: Use the grant funds to carry out, at a minimum, 1 of the following activities: Improving the effectiveness of teachers and school leaders and increasing equity in the distribution of effective teachers and school leaders. Strengthening the use of data to improve teaching and learning. Providing high-quality instruction based on college and career ready standards and measuring students’ mastery of standards using high-quality assessments aligned with those standards. Turning around the lowest-performing schools. Improving school readiness for students who are low-income, English learners, or children with disabilities. Other areas relating to school improvement consistent with the purposes of this part, as determined by the Secretary. Use the grant funds to develop or expand strategies to improve the performance of high-need students on the applicable performance measures described in section 5206. Each eligible entity that receives a grant under this part may use the grant funds for an independent evaluation, as required under section 5204(a)(8), of the innovative practice carried out with the grant. If an eligible entity that receives a grant under this part includes a nonprofit organization or educational service agency, such nonprofit organization or educational service agency may use the grant funds to award subgrants to other entities to provide support to 1 or more schools or local educational agencies. Each entity awarded a subgrant under paragraph
(1)shall comply with the requirements of this part relating to grantees, as appropriate. The Secretary shall establish performance measures for the programs and activities carried out under this part. These measures, at a minimum, shall track the grantee’s progress in improving outcomes for each subgroup of students described in section 1111(a)(2)(B)(x) that is served by the grantee, including, as applicable, by— increasing student achievement and decreasing achievement gaps; increasing high school graduation rates; increasing college readiness and rates of college enrollment; improving teacher and school leader effectiveness; improving school readiness; and any other indicator as the Secretary or grantee may determine. An eligible entity that receives a grant under this part shall submit to the Secretary, at such time and in such manner as the Secretary may require, an annual report that includes, among other things, information on the entity's progress on the performance measures established under section 5206, and the data supporting that progress. .
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