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
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
(a) Maintenance of equity. Subpart 2 of part F of title VIII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
8549D. Maintenance of equity
(a) High-Need local educational agencies. As a condition of receiving funds under part A of title I, a State educational agency shall not, in fiscal year 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, or 2031, reduce State funding (as calculated on a per-pupil basis) for any high-need local educational agency in the State by an amount that exceeds the overall per-pupil reduction in State funds, if any, across all local educational agencies in such State in such fiscal year.
(b) Highest poverty local educational agencies. Notwithstanding paragraph (1), as a condition of receiving funds under part A of title I, a State educational agency shall not, in fiscal year 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, or 2031, reduce State funding (as calculated on a per-pupil basis) for any highest poverty local educational agency below the level of funding (as calculated on a per-pupil basis) provided to each such local educational agency in fiscal year 2025.
(c) Definitions. In this section:
(1) High-need local educational agency. The term high-need local educational agency has the meaning given the term in section 200 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1021).
(2) Highest poverty local educational agency. The term highest poverty local educational agency has the meaning given the term in section 2004 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117–2).
(b) Other plan provisions. Section 1111(g)(1) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311(g)(1)) is amended—
(1) by redesignating subparagraphs (D) through (G) as subparagraphs (E) through (H), respectively; and
(2) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following:
(D) the steps the State educational agency will take to ensure local educational agencies are spending funds equitably, with higher-need schools receiving proportionally greater funding, including taking corrective actions as necessary to ensure equitable spending;
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