3.0.0 3093 2023-01-11T13:32:38Z 2023-01-11T13:32:38Z Senate S 2016-06-23 114 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2016-06-23T19:59:52Z Equity in Career and Technical Education Act of 2016 114 5641 HR 2016-09-19 Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education. Identical bill CRS 2016-06-23 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2016-06-23 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001042 Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI] Mazie Hirono D HI K. N Labor and Employment Academic performance and assessments Child care and development Education of the disadvantaged Education programs funding Elementary and secondary education Higher education Performance measurement State and local government operations Teaching, teachers, curricula Vocational and technical education Wages and earnings Labor and Employment 00 2016-06-23 Introduced in Senate 2016-12-05T19:06:17Z Equity in Career and Technical Education Act of 2016

This bill amends the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 to require state and local educational agencies to conduct an annual equity gap assessment for career and technical education programs of study and create plans on how to reduce the gap.The "equity gap" consists of the gaps in participation and performance between students based on gender, race, and certain special populations.

The bill requires states to provide professional development and technical assistance to help local educational agencies close equity gaps in career and technical education.States and local agencies that fail to make improvements in closing equity gaps must implement an improvement plan.The Department of Education (ED)may withhold funding from states that fail to show improvement in closing equity gaps.Additionally, states may withhold funding from local agencies that fail to make improvements.

States must also annually report toED on the progress of the state in closing equity gaps.

]]> Equity in Career and Technical Education Act of 2016 Display Title Equity in Career and Technical Education Act of 2016 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 in order to improve career and technical education, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Equity in Career and Technical Education Act of 2016 Introduced in Senate 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s3093is/xml/BILLS-114s3093is.xml 2016-06-23 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.