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The bill connects SCORE volunteers and SBA resources to community learning centers to expand youth entrepreneurship education and local small-business pipelines, but it relies heavily on volunteerism and existing statutory authority without providing new funding or guaranteed remediation for uneven access, creating a trade-off between low-cost expansion and limited, uneven impact.
Students and children in community learning centers will gain direct entrepreneurship education and mentorship from trained SCORE volunteers, increasing practical business skills and early exposure to entrepreneurship careers.
Small businesses and underserved communities get clearer, more direct connections to SBA resources and local support organizations (SCORE, SBDCs, Women’s Business Centers, MBDA), strengthening local entrepreneurial pipelines and potential new business formation.
Targeted mentorship programs for disadvantaged youth may improve long-term economic mobility and community productivity by increasing entrepreneurial knowledge and networks.
Relying on volunteers and cross-references without new funding or binding requirements means the initiative may have limited impact in practice and depend on inconsistent local volunteer capacity.
Underrepresented and remote students or communities may receive uneven or inadequate access to mentoring (volunteer coverage varies) and the bill’s reporting requirements do not guarantee funding to fix those disparities.
Promoting entrepreneurship without guaranteed complementary supports (start-up capital, sustained training, infrastructure) risks producing few sustainable new businesses for disadvantaged individuals.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Directs SBA to create and deliver an entrepreneurship curriculum for SCORE volunteers to teach students in community learning centers and requires reporting to Congress.
Official title: To allow participants in the Service Corps of Retired Executives to teach entrepreneurship at community learning centers, and for other purposes.
Introduced April 21, 2026 by Sharice Davids · Last progress April 21, 2026
Creates a federal program led by the Small Business Administration (SBA) to develop and deliver an entrepreneurship curriculum through volunteer mentors in the SCORE program to students served by community learning centers. The SBA must work with education and business groups, coordinate with existing SBA resource centers, amend statutory lists to authorize entrepreneurship education in community learning centers, and report to Congress within one year and then biennially on program use and outcomes. The law imports existing statutory definitions for community learning centers and SCORE, requires collaboration with education and underrepresented-youth organizations when designing curriculum, and directs periodic reporting on reach, funding, training, and barriers to improve program delivery.