3.0.0 847 2023-01-11T13:28:31Z 2023-01-11T13:28:31Z House HR 2015-02-10 114 [Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 22 (Tuesday, February 10, 2015)]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Mr. POLIS:H.R. 847.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, section 8 of the Constitution of the UnitedStates[Page H918]]]> hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee House Standing hsed14 Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Referred to 2015-04-29T13:54:07Z Referred to 2015-02-10T17:04:00Z Investing in Innovation for Education Act of 2015 114 605 S 2015-02-26 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS 2015-04-29 hsed14 Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education. Committee 2015-02-10 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee 2015-02-10 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2015-02-10 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress P000598 Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2] Jared Polis D CO 2 N S001177 Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large] Gregorio Sablan D MP Kilili Camacho 0 2015-02-10 True Education Academic performance and assessments Alaska Natives and Hawaiians Education of the disadvantaged Education programs funding Educational technology and distance education Elementary and secondary education Minority education Performance measurement Rural conditions and development Teaching, teachers, curricula Education 00 2015-02-10 Introduced in House 2015-03-19T17:46:23Z Investing in Innovation for Education Act of 2015

Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to local educational agencies (LEAs), educational service agencies, and nonprofit organizations that partner with an LEA or consortium of schools to support school innovations.

Requires at least 25% of the grant funds to be awarded for projects in rural areas.

Requires each grant applicant to demonstrate that it has partnered with at least one private entity that will provide matching funds. Allows the Secretary to waive the matching funds requirement upon a showing of exceptional circumstances.

Requires each grant to be used to address at least one of the following areas of school innovation:

  • improving the effectiveness and distribution of teachers or principals,
  • strengthening the use of data to improve teaching and learning,
  • providing high-quality instruction that is based on rigorous standards and measuring students' proficiency using high-quality assessments that are aligned to those standards,
  • turning around the lowest-performing schools,
  • supporting the effective use of technology to improve teaching or principals and learning, and
  • any other area of school innovation the Secretary chooses.

Directs the Secretary to establish performance measures for tracking each grantee's progress in: (1) improving the academic performance of public elementary and secondary school students, and specified subgroups of those students; and (2) implementing its project in rural schools, as applicable. Requires grantees to use grant funds to develop or expand strategies to improve high-need students' showing on those performance measures.

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