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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2485 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To expand arts education, and for other purposes. |
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| 6 | 6 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 7 | 7 | | MARCH31, 2025 |
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| 8 | 8 | | Ms. B |
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| 9 | 9 | | ONAMICI(for herself, Mr. BACON, Ms. PINGREE, Ms. LEGER |
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| 11 | 11 | | ERNANDEZ, Ms. NORTON, Mr. JOHNSONof Georgia, Ms. RANDALL, Ms. |
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| 13 | 13 | | TANSBURY, and Ms. TLAIB) introduced the following bill; which was re- |
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| 14 | 14 | | ferred to the Committee on Education and Workforce |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL |
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| 16 | 16 | | To expand arts education, and for other purposes. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Arts Education for 4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | All Act’’. 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | TITLE I—EARLY CHILDHOOD 6 |
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| 23 | 23 | | EDUCATION PROGRAMS 7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | SEC. 101. EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PROGRAMS. 8 |
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| 25 | 25 | | The Child Care and Development Block Grant Act 9 |
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| 26 | 26 | | of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9857 et seq.) is amended— 10 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (1) in section 658G(b)(1), by striking subpara-1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | graph (A) and inserting the following: 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ‘‘(A) offering training, coaching, or profes-3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | sional development opportunities for child care 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | providers that relate to the use of evidence- 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | based, developmentally appropriate and age-ap-6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | propriate strategies to promote the social, emo-7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | tional, physical, adaptive, communication, and 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | cognitive development of children, including key 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | programmatic strategies, and offering special-10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | ized training for child care providers caring for 11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | those populations prioritized in section 12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | 658E(c)(2)(Q), and children with disabilities;’’; 13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | and 14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (2) in section 658P, by adding at the end the 15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | following: 16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ‘‘(16) K |
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| 47 | 47 | | EY PROGRAMMATIC STRATEGIES .—The 17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | term ‘key programmatic strategies’ means strategies 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | related to— 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | ‘‘(A) nutrition and physical activity; 20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ‘‘(B) recommended practices for age-ap-21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | propriate exposure to screen media; and 22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | ‘‘(C) the integration and utilization of in-23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | structional methods to assist learning across 24 |
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| 55 | 55 | | disciplines, including methods that use the arts, 25 |
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| 59 | 59 | | language, literacy, mathematics, science, and 1 |
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| 60 | 60 | | social studies.’’. 2 |
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| 61 | 61 | | TITLE II—AMENDMENTS TO THE 3 |
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| 62 | 62 | | ELEMENTARY AND SEC-4 |
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| 63 | 63 | | ONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 5 |
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| 64 | 64 | | 1965 6 |
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| 65 | 65 | | SEC. 201. REFERENCES. 7 |
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| 66 | 66 | | Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in 8 |
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| 67 | 67 | | this title an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms 9 |
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| 68 | 68 | | of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provi-10 |
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| 69 | 69 | | sion, the reference shall be considered to be made to a 11 |
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| 70 | 70 | | section or other provision of the Elementary and Sec-12 |
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| 71 | 71 | | ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.). 13 |
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| 72 | 72 | | SEC. 202. STATE AND LOCAL PLANS. 14 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (a) Section 1111(g) (20 U.S.C. 6311(g)) is amended 15 |
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| 74 | 74 | | by adding at the end the following: 16 |
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| 75 | 75 | | ‘‘(5) U |
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| 76 | 76 | | SE OF ARTS EDUCATION TO IMPROVE 17 |
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| 77 | 77 | | STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT .—Each State’s plan shall 18 |
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| 78 | 78 | | describe how the State educational agency will— 19 |
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| 79 | 79 | | ‘‘(A) support and encourage the offering of 20 |
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| 80 | 80 | | a variety of arts education experiences to stu-21 |
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| 81 | 81 | | dents as part of the State educational agency’s 22 |
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| 82 | 82 | | overall strategy to improve student achievement 23 |
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| 83 | 83 | | in the subjects described in section 8101(52); 24 |
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| 87 | 87 | | ‘‘(B) integrate arts education instruction 1 |
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| 88 | 88 | | into the curriculum; 2 |
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| 89 | 89 | | ‘‘(C) increase the number of arts edu-3 |
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| 90 | 90 | | cators, including arts education specialists, in 4 |
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| 91 | 91 | | schools; 5 |
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| 92 | 92 | | ‘‘(D) utilize partnerships with specialized 6 |
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| 93 | 93 | | teaching artists to train teachers to augment 7 |
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| 94 | 94 | | creative thinking techniques into the instruction 8 |
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| 95 | 95 | | provided in math, reading, English language 9 |
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| 96 | 96 | | arts, science, and other subjects described in 10 |
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| 97 | 97 | | section 8101(52); 11 |
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| 98 | 98 | | ‘‘(E) ensure that arts instruction provided 12 |
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| 99 | 99 | | in the State is standards-based, as applicable, 13 |
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| 100 | 100 | | and sequential with arts courses offered in the 14 |
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| 101 | 101 | | grades 6 through 12 building upon such courses 15 |
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| 102 | 102 | | offered in earlier grades; 16 |
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| 103 | 103 | | ‘‘(F) increase the number of classes taught 17 |
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| 104 | 104 | | by arts educators, including arts education spe-18 |
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| 105 | 105 | | cialists, with a particular focus on classes with 19 |
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| 106 | 106 | | high percentages of students who are low-in-20 |
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| 107 | 107 | | come, students with disabilities, English learn-21 |
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| 108 | 108 | | ers, or students of color; and 22 |
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| 109 | 109 | | ‘‘(G) support partnerships that increase 23 |
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| 110 | 110 | | the amount of arts education and creative youth 24 |
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| 114 | 114 | | development available in afterschool and sum-1 |
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| 115 | 115 | | mer learning programs.’’. 2 |
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| 116 | 116 | | (b) Section 1112(b) (20 U.S.C. 6312(b)) is amend-3 |
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| 117 | 117 | | ed— 4 |
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| 118 | 118 | | (1) in paragraph (12), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 5 |
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| 119 | 119 | | end; 6 |
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| 120 | 120 | | (2) by redesignating paragraph (13) as para-7 |
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| 121 | 121 | | graph (14); and 8 |
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| 122 | 122 | | (3) by inserting after paragraph (12) the fol-9 |
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| 123 | 123 | | lowing: 10 |
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| 124 | 124 | | ‘‘(13) how the local educational agency will sup-11 |
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| 125 | 125 | | port learning in the arts and encourage the use of 12 |
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| 126 | 126 | | the arts education to improve student achievement 13 |
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| 127 | 127 | | consistent with section 1111(g)(5); and’’. 14 |
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| 128 | 128 | | SEC. 203. REPORT CARDS. 15 |
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| 129 | 129 | | Section 1111(h)(1)(C) (20 U.S.C. 6311(h)(1)(C)) is 16 |
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| 130 | 130 | | amended— 17 |
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| 131 | 131 | | (1) by redesignating clause (xiv) as (xv); and 18 |
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| 132 | 132 | | (2) by inserting after clause (xiii) the following: 19 |
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| 133 | 133 | | ‘‘(xiv) Information on arts courses, in-20 |
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| 134 | 134 | | cluding— 21 |
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| 135 | 135 | | ‘‘(I) the number of, range, and 22 |
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| 136 | 136 | | sequence of course offerings; 23 |
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| 137 | 137 | | ‘‘(II) the average pupil-to-teacher 24 |
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| 138 | 138 | | ratio in such courses; 25 |
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| 142 | 142 | | ‘‘(III) the average amount of in-1 |
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| 143 | 143 | | structional time in such courses; and 2 |
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| 144 | 144 | | ‘‘(IV) for each semester, the per-3 |
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| 145 | 145 | | centage (in the aggregate and disag-4 |
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| 146 | 146 | | gregated by high-poverty compared to 5 |
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| 147 | 147 | | low-poverty schools, which for the pur-6 |
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| 148 | 148 | | pose of this subclause, means schools 7 |
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| 149 | 149 | | in the top quartile of poverty and the 8 |
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| 150 | 150 | | bottom quartile of poverty in the 9 |
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| 151 | 151 | | State) of— 10 |
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| 152 | 152 | | ‘‘(aa) schools offering arts 11 |
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| 153 | 153 | | courses; 12 |
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| 154 | 154 | | ‘‘(bb) students taking arts 13 |
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| 155 | 155 | | courses; and 14 |
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| 156 | 156 | | ‘‘(cc) arts courses taught by 15 |
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| 157 | 157 | | arts teachers with full State cer-16 |
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| 158 | 158 | | tification or licensure.’’. 17 |
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| 159 | 159 | | SEC. 204. SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT. 18 |
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| 160 | 160 | | Section 1111(d)(2)(B) (20 U.S.C. 6311(d)(2)(B)) is 19 |
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| 161 | 161 | | amended— 20 |
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| 162 | 162 | | (1) in clause (iv), by striking ‘‘; and’’ and in-21 |
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| 163 | 163 | | serting a semicolon; 22 |
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| 164 | 164 | | (2) by redesignating clause (v) as clause (vi); 23 |
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| 165 | 165 | | and 24 |
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| 166 | 166 | | (3) by inserting after clause (iv) the following: 25 |
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| 170 | 170 | | ‘‘(v)(I) provides for an evaluation of 1 |
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| 171 | 171 | | the arts courses offered at such school dur-2 |
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| 172 | 172 | | ing the school day and the certification, 3 |
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| 173 | 173 | | training and skills of staff that are teach-4 |
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| 174 | 174 | | ing such courses including teaching artists; 5 |
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| 175 | 175 | | and 6 |
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| 176 | 176 | | ‘‘(II) based on such evaluation, incor-7 |
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| 177 | 177 | | porate the offering of arts courses into the 8 |
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| 178 | 178 | | offerings of such school; and’’. 9 |
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| 179 | 179 | | SEC. 205. ARTS FOR NEGLECTED AND DELINQUENT CHIL-10 |
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| 180 | 180 | | DREN AND YOUTH. 11 |
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| 181 | 181 | | Section 1415(a)(2)(B)(ii) (20 U.S.C. 12 |
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| 182 | 182 | | 6435(a)(2)(B)(ii)) is amended by inserting ‘‘access to the 13 |
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| 183 | 183 | | arts and arts education and’’ after ‘‘improving’’. 14 |
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| 184 | 184 | | SEC. 206. SUBGRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES. 15 |
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| 185 | 185 | | (a) L |
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| 186 | 186 | | OCALUSES OFFUNDS.—Section 2103(b)(3) 16 |
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| 187 | 187 | | (20 U.S.C. 6613(b)(3)) is amended— 17 |
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| 188 | 188 | | (1) in subparagraph (O), by striking ‘‘; and’’ 18 |
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| 189 | 189 | | and inserting a semicolon; 19 |
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| 190 | 190 | | (2) by redesignating subparagraph (P) as sub-20 |
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| 191 | 191 | | paragraph (Q); and 21 |
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| 192 | 192 | | (3) by inserting after subparagraph (O) the fol-22 |
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| 193 | 193 | | lowing: 23 |
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| 194 | 194 | | ‘‘(P) carrying out activities to increase 24 |
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| 195 | 195 | | pathways to obtain rigorous, high-quality teach-25 |
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| 199 | 199 | | er certification or licensure for individuals seek-1 |
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| 200 | 200 | | ing to become teachers of the arts; and’’. 2 |
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| 201 | 201 | | (b) P |
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| 202 | 202 | | ROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR ARTS 3 |
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| 204 | 204 | | EACHERS.—Section 2103 (20 U.S.C. 6613) is further 4 |
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| 205 | 205 | | amended by inserting at the end the following: 5 |
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| 206 | 206 | | ‘‘(c) P |
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| 207 | 207 | | ROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR ARTS 6 |
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| 208 | 208 | | T |
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| 209 | 209 | | EACHERS.—In carrying out the programs and activities 7 |
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| 210 | 210 | | described under subsection (a), a local educational agency 8 |
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| 211 | 211 | | shall provide professional development for teachers of the 9 |
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| 212 | 212 | | arts, as appropriate, to fulfill the needs of such agency 10 |
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| 213 | 213 | | and the schools of such agency. 11 |
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| 214 | 214 | | ‘‘(d) P |
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| 215 | 215 | | ROFESSIONALDEVELOPMENT FOR INTEGRA-12 |
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| 216 | 216 | | TION OF THEARTS.—In carrying out the programs and 13 |
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| 217 | 217 | | activities described under subsection (a), a local edu-14 |
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| 218 | 218 | | cational agency shall provide professional development for 15 |
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| 219 | 219 | | teachers to integrate the arts into their instruction in 16 |
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| 220 | 220 | | math, reading, English language arts, science, and other 17 |
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| 221 | 221 | | subjects described in section 8101(52).’’. 18 |
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| 222 | 222 | | SEC. 207. 21ST CENTURY COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS. 19 |
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| 223 | 223 | | (a) A |
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| 224 | 224 | | RTSORGANIZATIONS.—Section 4205(a) (20 20 |
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| 225 | 225 | | U.S.C. 7175(a)) is amended— 21 |
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| 226 | 226 | | (1) in paragraph (13), by striking ‘‘; and’’; 22 |
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| 227 | 227 | | (2) in paragraph (14), by striking the period at 23 |
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| 228 | 228 | | the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 24 |
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| 229 | 229 | | (3) by adding at the end the following: 25 |
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| 233 | 233 | | ‘‘(15) partnering with, integrating the services 1 |
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| 234 | 234 | | of, and utilizing the services and offerings provided 2 |
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| 235 | 235 | | by arts services organizations or other community- 3 |
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| 236 | 236 | | focused arts nonprofits and organizations that fur-4 |
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| 237 | 237 | | ther creative youth development.’’. 5 |
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| 238 | 238 | | (b) P |
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| 239 | 239 | | ROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.—Section 6 |
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| 240 | 240 | | 4203(a)(6) (20 U.S.C. 7173(a)(6)) is amended by insert-7 |
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| 241 | 241 | | ing ‘‘, including arts education’’ after ‘‘areas’’. 8 |
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| 242 | 242 | | TITLE III—AMENDMENTS TO 9 |
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| 243 | 243 | | THE JUVENILE JUSTICE AND 10 |
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| 244 | 244 | | DELINQUENCY PREVENTION 11 |
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| 245 | 245 | | ACT OF 1974 AND TO THE OM-12 |
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| 246 | 246 | | NIBUS CRIME CONTROL AND 13 |
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| 247 | 247 | | SAFE STREETS ACT OF 1968 14 |
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| 248 | 248 | | SEC. 301. AMENDMENTS TO THE JUVENILE JUSTICE AND 15 |
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| 249 | 249 | | DELINQUENCY PREVENTION ACT OF 1974. 16 |
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| 250 | 250 | | Section 223(a) of the Juvenile Justice and Delin-17 |
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| 251 | 251 | | quency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5633(a)) is 18 |
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| 252 | 252 | | amended— 19 |
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| 253 | 253 | | (1) in paragraph (32) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 20 |
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| 254 | 254 | | end, 21 |
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| 255 | 255 | | (2) in paragraph (33) by striking the period at 22 |
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| 256 | 256 | | the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’, and 23 |
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| 257 | 257 | | (3) by adding at the end the following: 24 |
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| 262 | 262 | | services, activities for juvenile justice and delin-2 |
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| 263 | 263 | | quency prevention with State and local agencies and 3 |
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| 264 | 264 | | organizations, including State and local arts agen-4 |
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| 265 | 265 | | cies, arts organizations, and organizations that fur-5 |
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| 266 | 266 | | ther creative youth development.’’. 6 |
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| 267 | 267 | | SEC. 302. AMENDMENTS TO ADULT AND JUVENILE OF-7 |
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| 268 | 268 | | FENDER DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS AND 8 |
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| 269 | 269 | | THE STATE, TRIBAL AND LOCAL REENTRY 9 |
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| 270 | 270 | | COURTS PROGRAMS. 10 |
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| 271 | 271 | | The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 11 |
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| 272 | 272 | | 1968 is amended in section 2976(b)(4)— 12 |
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| 273 | 273 | | (1) by striking ‘‘; and’’ in subparagraph (A); 13 |
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| 274 | 274 | | (2) after subparagraph (A), by inserting the fol-14 |
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| 275 | 275 | | lowing: 15 |
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| 276 | 276 | | ‘‘(B) use arts education programs and 16 |
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| 277 | 277 | | services to better facilitate reentry and reduce 17 |
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| 278 | 278 | | recidivism and connect offenders to educational 18 |
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| 279 | 279 | | opportunities and employment after reentry into 19 |
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| 280 | 280 | | the community; and’’; and 20 |
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| 281 | 281 | | (3) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as sub-21 |
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| 288 | 288 | | FORM ACT OF 2002 AND THE 3 |
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| 289 | 289 | | NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF 4 |
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| 290 | 290 | | EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS AU-5 |
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| 291 | 291 | | THORIZATION ACT 6 |
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| 292 | 292 | | SEC. 401. ARTS RESEARCH. 7 |
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| 293 | 293 | | Section 133 of the Education Sciences Reform Act 8 |
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| 294 | 294 | | of 2002 (20 U.S.C. 9533) is amended— 9 |
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| 295 | 295 | | (1) in subsection (a)— 10 |
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| 296 | 296 | | (A) by striking ‘‘; and’’ at the end of sub-11 |
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| 297 | 297 | | paragraph (10)(D); 12 |
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| 298 | 298 | | (B) by redesignating subparagraph (11) as 13 |
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| 299 | 299 | | subparagraph (12); and 14 |
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| 300 | 300 | | (C) by inserting after paragraph (10) the 15 |
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| 301 | 301 | | following: 16 |
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| 302 | 302 | | ‘‘(11) carry out research on the use of the arts 17 |
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| 303 | 303 | | and arts education that is rigorous, peer reviewed 18 |
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| 304 | 304 | | and large scale to determine which methods and 19 |
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| 305 | 305 | | uses of the arts and arts education are most effec-20 |
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| 306 | 306 | | tive, cost efficient and able to be applied, duplicated, 21 |
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| 307 | 307 | | and scaled up for the use in elementary and sec-22 |
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| 308 | 308 | | ondary classrooms, including in low-performing 23 |
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| 309 | 309 | | schools; and’’; and 24 |
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| 313 | 313 | | (2) in subsection (c)(2), by adding at the end 1 |
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| 314 | 314 | | the following: 2 |
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| 315 | 315 | | ‘‘(L) Use of the arts and arts education in 3 |
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| 316 | 316 | | improving elementary and secondary edu-4 |
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| 317 | 317 | | cation.’’. 5 |
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| 318 | 318 | | SEC. 402. ARTS STATISTICAL DATA. 6 |
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| 319 | 319 | | Section 153(a)(1) of the Education Sciences Reform 7 |
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| 320 | 320 | | Act of 2002 (20 U.S.C. 9543(a)(1)) is amended— 8 |
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| 321 | 321 | | (1) in subparagraph (N), by striking ‘‘; and’’ 9 |
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| 322 | 322 | | and inserting a semicolon; 10 |
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| 323 | 323 | | (2) by redesignating subparagraph (O) as sub-11 |
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| 324 | 324 | | paragraph (P); and 12 |
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| 325 | 325 | | (3) by inserting after subparagraph (N), the 13 |
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| 326 | 326 | | following: 14 |
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| 327 | 327 | | ‘‘(O) access to, the integration of and the 15 |
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| 328 | 328 | | inclusion of arts education; and’’. 16 |
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| 331 | 331 | | Section 303(b) of the National Assessment of Edu-19 |
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| 332 | 332 | | cational Progress Authorization Act (20 U.S.C. 9622(b)) 20 |
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| 333 | 333 | | is amended by adding at the end the following: 21 |
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| 336 | 336 | | Board shall select the arts as a subject to be as-23 |
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