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Official title: To authorize the Secretary of Education to carry out a program to increase access to prekindergarten through grade 12 computer science education.
Introduced December 10, 2025 by Luz M. Rivas · Last progress December 10, 2025
This bill meaningfully expands federal support, access, teacher capacity, and data-driven oversight for K–12 computer science—helping close equity and workforce gaps—while creating new federal costs, administrative burdens, privacy risks, and some limits on local flexibility that will need mitigation.
Students, teachers, and schools: the bill provides stable federal grant funding ($250M/year FY2026–FY2030) to scale K–12 computer science education nationwide, enabling program growth and sustained investment.
Students (including underrepresented groups) and teachers: the bill guarantees expanded access to computer science courses (including K–8 progressions and high school offerings), funds teacher training, and supports mentoring/targeted services to reduce enrollment and achievement gaps.
Policymakers, districts, and educators: the bill creates new data collection and reporting (semiannual grantee reports and national statistics) to identify where CS is offered and who is served, improving targeting of resources and revealing service gaps by race, gender, and poverty.
Students and families: the bill requires expanded collection and reporting of student demographic and competency data (and permits classroom use of AI/related tech) that raises significant privacy and data‑security risks if strong safeguards are not specified.
Taxpayers and federal budget priorities: the program costs $250M/year (FY2026–FY2030), which increases federal spending and could divert funds from other priorities or raise budgetary pressures.
Schools, districts, and grantees: semiannual reporting, new nationwide data submissions, and ambitious expansion requirements create added administrative burden and staff time costs for local education agencies and grant recipients.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Authorizes competitive grants to expand PK–12 computer science education with $250M/year for five years and new federal data collection on CS offerings and competency.
Authorizes five-year competitive grants to states, local education agencies, tribal schools, and consortia to expand high-quality computer science education from PK–12, with a focus on access, equity, teacher training, and preparation for technologies like artificial intelligence. It sets an annual authorization of $250 million for five years, requires reporting on student participation disaggregated by race, gender, and income, and directs the Department of Education’s statistics center to collect nationwide data about computer science offerings and student competency. Grantees must submit multi-year plans to ensure every served high school student has access to computer science within five years, support underrepresented students, limit equipment purchases to 15% of grant funds, and undergo continuous evaluation; the Secretary may reserve up to 2.5% for national activities and must report to Congress with recommendations after five years.