H.R. 10421
Transforming Education for the Future Act
Sponsor: Suzanne Bonamici
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I Support for All Schools to Provide a Well-Rounded Education
A Innovative Teaching and Learning
1 Project-Based Learning Grants
2 Arts Education for All
3 Black History is American History
4 Teaching Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander History
5 Teaching Hispanic and Latino and American Indian History
6 Holocaust Education and Antisemitism Lessons
7 Full-Service Community Schools Expansion
8 Reading Excellence and Achievement for Development
B High-Quality Assessments and Accountability
1 Promoting Innovative and Holistic Assessment Models
2 State Accountability System Reform
II Support for School Climate and Safety
A Civil Rights
B Educator and Staff Support
1 Professional Development
2 American Teachers
3 Preparing and Retaining All Paraeducators
4 Supporting the Mental Health of Educators and Staff
C School Climate and Safety
1 Fentanyl Awareness for Children and Teens in Schools
A Definitions
B Partnership Grants for Local and State Educational Agencies
C Establishment of Interagency Task Force
D Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
E Amendments to Department of Education Data Collection
F School-Based Health Centers and Reporting
2 Protecting Our Students in Schools
A Purposes; Definitions
B Prohibition of Corporal Punishment
C State Activities and Grant Program
D Additional Provisions
3 Keeping All Students Safe
A Prohibition on Restraint and Seclusion; Additional Requirements
B State Plan; Reporting Requirements; Grants for State Educational Agencies
C General Provisions
4 Safe Schools Improvement
5 School Violence Prevention
6 Expanding Access to Mental Health Services in Schools
7 Right to Read
(a) Preemption and election of state nonapplicability. Section 8555(b) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7945(b)) is amended by striking This subpart shall not apply and inserting Except with respect to section 8556(b), this subpart shall not apply.
(b) In general. Section 8556 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7946) is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsections (b) through (e) as subsections (c) through (f), respectively;
(2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:
(b) Liability protections related to the right To read. No teacher, school librarian, school leader, paraprofessional, or other staff in a school shall be liable for harm caused by an act or omission of such individual if the actions of the individual were carried out in conformity with State or local policies regarding the right to read.
(3) in subsection (a), in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking subsection (b) and inserting subsection (c);
(4) in subsection (c)(3), as redesignated by paragraph (1), by striking A State law that and inserting Except with respect to subsection (b), a State law that; and
(5) in subsection (f), as redesignated by paragraph (1)—
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking Nothing in this section and inserting Except with respect to subsection (b), nothing in this section; and
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking Nothing in this subpart and inserting Except with respect to subsection (b), nothing in this subpart.
D Education Research and Development
1 New Essential Education Discoveries
2 National Education Technology Clearinghouse
III Support for Addressing Socioeconomic Barriers to Learning
1 Protecting Public Education
A Protecting Public Schools
B Championing Honest and Responsible Transparency in Education Reform
2 Preschool for All
3 School Meals for All
A Universal School Meals Program
B Mitigating Electronic Access Losses for Students