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
I Data literacy education grant program
II Statistics on secondary school STEM teachers
(a) In general. Section 153 of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (20 U.S.C. 9543) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)(1)—
(A) in subparagraph (N), by striking and at the end;
(B) in subparagraph (O), by adding and at the end; and
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (O) the following:
(P) the number of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers in secondary schools in each State, including—
(i) the subjects taught by such teachers;
(ii) the educational backgrounds of such teachers; and
(iii) the demographics of such teachers, disaggregated by race, ethnicity, and gender;
; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
(c) STEM teachers report frequency. The statistical data described in subsection (a)(1)(P) shall be collected and reported not more frequently than once every 5 years.
(b) Effective date. This section and the amendments made by this section shall take effect 1 year after the date of the enactment of this section.