Sec. 5. Evaluation
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Part B of title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1011 et seq.), as amended by section 4, is further amended by adding at the end the following: Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Secretary, in consultation with the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences, may, for each fiscal year, reserve not more than 1 percent of the amount appropriated for each discretionary grant program authorized under this Act (except for the Federal Pell Grant program under section 401) in order to rigorously and independently evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the outcomes of all programs authorized under this Act. The amount reserved under paragraph
(1)shall be in addition to any other amounts reserved for evaluation under this Act. On a biennial basis, the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences shall develop, submit to the authorizing committees, and make publicly available on the website of the Department, an evaluation plan for the next 2 fiscal years that— describes the specific activities that will be carried out under subsection
(a)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
(a)for the most recent 2-year period; and describes how programs authorized under this Act will be regularly evaluated, including the outcome measures to be used to evaluate each program. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Secretary, in consultation with the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences— may consolidate the funds reserved under subsection
(a)for purposes of carrying out the activities described in subsection (b); and shall not be required to evaluate each program authorized under this Act each year. Nothing in this section shall be construed to conflict with or supercede any other evaluation requirement for a specific program or activity authorized under this Act. .
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