Sec. 5. Evaluations
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Before finalizing which eligible institutions will receive grants under section 4 for a fiscal year, the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences, shall enter into a contract with an independent evaluator— to consult with the Secretary on which eligible institutions should receive the grants; and to use the What Works Clearinghouse Standards (without reservations) to evaluate, throughout the duration of the grant period of such grants— each community college student success program for which such grant is awarded, including whether the program met its ambitious outcome goals described in the report submitted by the institution under section 3(f)(1)(A); the average impact of community college student success programs on graduation rates and transfer rates for eligible students; the variation in program impacts across eligible institutions with respect to such rates; and whether such programs lead to higher graduation rates and transfer rates of eligible students per dollar spent for such students by such institutions compared with such rates at eligible institutions without such programs.
The results of the evaluations under subsection
(a)shall be made publicly available on the website of the Department of Education. The Secretary may reserve not more than 15 percent of the funds appropriated under section 10 for a fiscal year to carry out this section for such fiscal year.