Sec. 208. National Academies study to improve ESEA’s resource equity requirements
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Not later than 240 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to— conduct a study of how to improve Federal requirements designed to ensure that public schools and local educational agencies that serve a high number or percentage of underserved groups of students, including students from low-income backgrounds, students of color, English learners, children with disabilities, students experiencing homelessness, and children and youth in the foster care system, receive an adequate and equitable share of State and local funds; and make the report described in subsection
(c)publicly available. The study described in subsection
(a)shall— examine disparities in per-pupil expenditures (from State and local funding) and in full-time equivalent staff between public schools receiving support under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq. ) and public schools not receiving support under such part; identify options for improving the fiscal requirements for purposes of comparability as described in section 1118(c) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 6321(c) ); identify options for improving the supplement, not supplant requirements under section 1118(b) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 6321(b) ); and include recommendations for effective or evidence-based Federal and State policies designed to ensure that public schools and local educational agencies that serve a high number or percentage of underserved groups of students receive an equitable share of funds, including recommendations relating to the equitable and adequate distribution of funds at the State and local levels. Not later than 3 years after the date of the agreement entered into under subsection (a), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine shall submit to the Secretary, the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, and the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives a report of the study required under such subsection. In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $1,500,000 to the Secretary to carry out this section for fiscal year 2024.
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