3.0.0 1245 2023-01-11T13:36:23Z 2023-01-11T13:36:23Z Senate S 2017-05-25 115 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-05-25T16:24:58Z Investing in 21st Century Workforce Partnerships Act 115 2775 S 2018-04-26 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS 2017-05-25 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2017-05-25 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress F000457 Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN] Al Franken D MN N Labor and Employment Alaska Natives and Hawaiians Education programs funding Elementary and secondary education Employment and training programs Higher education Indian social and development programs Minority education Rural conditions and development Teaching, teachers, curricula Vocational and technical education Labor and Employment 00 2017-05-25 Introduced in Senate 2018-02-08T19:38:22Z Advancing Career Pathways Innovation Act

This bill requires the Department of Education (ED) to establish a career pathways innovation grant program to award competitive three-year grants to eligible agencies (a local educational agency, or consortium thereof, or a school operated or funded by the Bureau of Indian Education) for the purpose of addressing the specialized skill needs of business and industry by carrying out career pathways programs, featuring school partnerships, that support career pathways at the secondary school level or career exploration at the elementary school level.

The Assistant Secretary of Career, Technical, and Adult Education shall:

  • administer such grants;
  • provide technical assistance to eligible agencies preparing grant applications; and
  • support career pathways partnership coordinators, or other personnel of eligible agencies that have received a grant, in order to ensure that the eligible agency participates in the required school partnership and the grant results in positive program outcomes.

ED must designate at least one employee of the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education who will exclusively support rural and native-serving eligible agencies with the preparation of grant applications and the development of school partnerships necessary to apply for and implement a grant.

]]> Advancing Career Pathways Innovation Act Display Title Advancing Career Pathways Innovation Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to award career pathways innovation grants to local educational agencies and consortia of local educational agencies, to provide technical assistance within the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education to administer the grants and support the local educational agencies with the preparation of grant applications and management of grant funds, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Advancing Career Pathways Innovation Act Introduced in Senate 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s1245is/xml/BILLS-115s1245is.xml 2017-05-25 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.