3.0.0 1015 2020-02-10T17:06:48Z 2020-02-10T17:06:48Z Senate S S 2011-05-17 112 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2011-05-17T19:02:08Z Foreign Language Education Partnership Program Act 112 1966 HR 2011-09-08 Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education. Identical bill CRS 2011-05-17 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2011-05-17 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000123 Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] FRANK LAUTENBERG D NJ R. N A000069 Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI] DANIEL AKAKA D HI KOHIKINA 2011-05-17 True Education Academic performance and assessments Area studies and international education Education programs funding Elementary and secondary education Foreign language and bilingual programs Geography and mapping Government information and archives Higher education Teaching, teachers, curricula Education 00 2011-05-17 Introduced in Senate 2011-05-27T21:22:36Z Foreign Language Education Partnership Program Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to replace the program providing incentive payments to public elementary schools for foreign language instruction with a partnership program in foreign languages that provides matching grants to partnerships composed of state or local educational agencies and institutions of higher education.

Requires such partnerships to establish, improve, or expand model programs of foreign language learning from kindergarten through grade 12 that increase the number of high school graduates who attain advanced proficiency in at least one foreign language.

Requires each model program to have a dimension allowing the student to gain an understanding of the historic, geographic, cultural, economic, and other contextual factors of countries whose people speak the language studied. Conditions a partnership's continued funding for two additional five-year periods, after an initial four-year funding period, on its demonstrating its program's effectiveness based on nationally recognized standardized foreign language assessments.

Directs the Secretary of Education to collect and analyze data on such programs annually and disseminate aggregated program data nationally, as well as information on successful programs and practices.

]]> Foreign Language Education Partnership Program Act Short Titles as Introduced Foreign Language Education Partnership Program Act Display Title Foreign Language Education Partnership Program Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a partnership program in foreign languages. Introduced in Senate 2011-05-17T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s1015is/xml/BILLS-112s1015is.xml 2011-05-17 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.