Sec. 9104. Evaluation authority
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Section 9601 (20 U.S.C. 7941) is amended to read as follows: Except as provided in subsection (b), the Secretary may reserve not less than 1 percent and not more than 3 percent of the amount appropriated to carry out each categorical program and demonstration project authorized under this Act. The reserved amounts shall be used by the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences, to— conduct— comprehensive, high-quality evaluations of the program or project that— provide information to inform policy-making and to support continuous program improvement; and use methods appropriate for the questions being asked; and impact evaluations that employ experimental or quasi-experimental designs, where practicable and appropriate, and other rigorous methodologies that permit the strongest possible causal inferences; provide technical assistance to grant recipients on— the conduct of the evaluation activities that the grantees carry out under this Act; and the collection and reporting of performance data relating to the program or project; evaluate the aggregate short- and long-term effects and cost efficiencies across Federal programs assisted or authorized under this Act and related Federal preschool, elementary, and secondary programs under any other Federal law; increase the usefulness of evaluations of grant recipients in order to ensure the continuous progress of the program or project by improving the quality, timeliness, efficiency, dissemination, and use of information relating to performance under the program or project; and identify and disseminate research and best practices related to the programs and projects authorized under this Act to build the evidence base for the programs and projects that effectively meet the goals of this Act.
I The Secretary shall reserve under subsection
(a)1 percent of the funds appropriated to carry out title I. Beginning not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the Strengthening America's Schools Act of 2013, the Secretary shall annually develop and submit to Congress a plan that— describes the timeline for evaluation of the programs and projects authorized under this Act; and describes the specific evaluation activities that the Secretary intends to carry out for such programs and projects during the next year. If, under any other provision of this Act (other than title I), funds are authorized to be reserved or used for evaluation activities with respect to a program or project, the Secretary may not reserve additional funds under this section for the evaluation of that program or project. The Secretary shall use not less than 30 percent of the funds reserved under this section for each of the fiscal years 2014 through 2019, in the aggregate for each year, for impact evaluations that meet the requirements of subsection (a)(1). .
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