3.0.0 969 2020-02-10T17:07:01Z 2020-02-10T17:07:01Z Senate S S 2011-05-12 112 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2011-05-12T17:10:17Z Engineering Education for Innovation Act 112 1951 HR 2011-09-08 Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education. Identical bill CRS 2011-05-12 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2011-05-12 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. N S000663 Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME] Olympia Snowe R ME J. 2011-05-12 True B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2011-05-12 True S000770 Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] Debbie Stabenow D MI 2011-05-12 True B001265 Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK] Mark Begich D AK 2011-05-12 True K000148 Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA] JOHN KERRY D MA FORBES 2011-06-28 False Education Academic performance and assessments Education of the disadvantaged Education programs funding Educational technology and distance education Elementary and secondary education Government information and archives Science and engineering education Teaching, teachers, curricula Education 00 2011-05-12 Introduced in Senate 2011-05-26T18:25:17Z Engineering Education for Innovation Act or E 2 for Innovation Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award planning grants and matching implementation grants to states to integrate engineering education into kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) instruction and curricula.

Requires each state that desires an implementation grant to develop quantifiable benchmarks for activities supported by such grants and submit them to the Secretary for approval.

Requires states to use implementation grants to: (1) establish assessment tools and challenging academic content and achievement standards for engineering education, (2) develop or obtain effective engineering education curricula, (3) develop or improve engineering teacher training programs, and (4) recruit qualified engineering teachers for needy schools.

Authorizes states to use such grants to: (1) facilitate distance learning and online education in engineering, and (2) invest in after-school engineering education programs.

Directs the Institute of Education Sciences to support engineering education research and an evaluation of this Act's grant programs.

Requires the Secretary to use the evaluation's findings to provide information to the public and technical assistance to states on best practices and promising innovations in K-12 engineering education.

]]> E 2 for Innovation Act Short Titles as Introduced E 2 for Innovation Act Short Titles as Introduced Engineering Education for Innovation Act Display Title E 2 for Innovation Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to award planning grants and implementation grants to State educational agencies to enable the State educational agencies to complete comprehensive planning to carry out activities designed to integrate engineering education into K-12 instruction and curriculum and to provide evaluation grants to measure efficacy of K-12 engineering education. Introduced in Senate 2011-05-12T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s969is/xml/BILLS-112s969is.xml 2011-05-12 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.