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
From the amounts appropriated under section 106, the Secretary shall award grants, on a competitive basis, to eligible entities to carry out projects—
(1) that increase access to data literacy education for students at the pre-kindergarten through postsecondary levels;
(2) that improve data reasoning skills in such students;
(3) that will serve as models for national data science and data literacy education; and
(4) in accordance with section 103.
II Statistics on secondary school STEM teachers