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Requires SBA to create an entrepreneurship curriculum for SCORE volunteers to teach students at community learning centers and adds entrepreneurship education to authorized center activities.
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
The bill connects SCORE volunteer mentorship and SBA resources to community learning centers to boost youth entrepreneurship and local business pipelines, but it largely relies on voluntary, procedural measures without guaranteed funding—raising risks of uneven reach, limited sustainability of outcomes, and added administrative burdens.
Students (especially children and youth from disadvantaged communities) gain access to trained SCORE volunteer mentors and entrepreneurship education in community learning centers, increasing practical business skills and the likelihood of pursuing entrepreneurial or inventing careers.
Small businesses and local economies benefit from clearer connections between schools, SCORE, and SBA resource partners (SBDCs, Women’s Business Centers, MBDA), strengthening local entrepreneurial pipelines and potentially supporting new business formation and job creation.
Schools and communities gain definitional clarity because the bill adopts existing ESEA language for 'community learning center,' making eligibility and program application more consistent for schools and districts.
Disadvantaged students and communities may see limited or uneven benefits because the approach relies on nonbinding volunteer engagement (SCORE) and volunteers can be inconsistent across regions without guaranteed funding or accountability.
The bill is largely procedural and creates no new guaranteed funding; it may impose additional administrative and program costs on the SBA that could divert resources from other services or require new appropriations, limiting real expansion of services for students and small businesses.
Underrepresented students could still be left behind if implementation favors certain centers or communities: biennial reporting must identify barriers but the statute does not guarantee remediation funding or corrective action.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Requires the Small Business Administration (SBA), working with the SCORE volunteer program and the Education Department, to develop and run an entrepreneurship curriculum for SCORE volunteers to teach students at community learning centers. It adds entrepreneurship education to the list of authorized activities for community learning centers and directs the SBA to report on implementation within one year and every two years thereafter. The law instructs SBA to collaborate with education experts, business and nonprofit groups, and organizations serving underrepresented children; coordinate delivery with existing SBA resource centers (Small Business Development Centers, Women’s Business Centers, and MBDA centers); and collect data on usage, reach, barriers, funding, and improvement plans in regular reports to Congress.