H.R. 10347
Data Science and Literacy Act of 2026
Sponsor: Haley M. Stevens
3 cosponsors
Official summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service.
Data Science and Literacy Act of 2026
This bill establishes a grant program for data literacy education and requires additional reporting regarding secondary school teachers.
Specifically, the bill directs the Department of Education to award grants to educational agencies, tribal schools, institutions of higher education, or consortia of such entities for programs to increase access to and support for data literacy, data science, and statistics education. The Institute of Education Sciences must evaluate the grant program within five years after the first grant is made to assess its effectiveness in improving access to data science and literacy.
Additionally, the bill requires the National Center for Education Statistics to collect and report information on the number of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers in secondary schools in each state.
Text of the bill
(a) Short title. This Act may be cited as the Data Science and Literacy Act of 2026.
(b) Table of contents. The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings. Title I—Data literacy education grant program Sec. 101. Grant program established. Sec. 102. Applications. Sec. 103. Use of funds. Sec. 104. Reporting and evaluation. Sec. 105. Definitions. Sec. 106. Authorization of appropriations. Title II—Statistics on secondary school STEM teachers Sec. 201. Amendments to the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002.
I Data literacy education grant program
II Statistics on secondary school STEM teachers