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Official title: To direct the Secretary of Education to award grants to State educational agencies for the purpose of implementing, administering, and evaluating programs that provide tutoring to students in elementary and secondary schools, and for other purposes.
Introduced January 31, 2025 by Mikie Sherrill · Last progress January 31, 2025
The bill invests heavily in scaling evidence-based K–12 tutoring and building a tutoring workforce—likely improving outcomes for many high-need students—but does so through uncapped spending, detailed federal standards, set-asides, and heavy reporting/implementation requirements that increase costs and administrative burdens, especially for smaller districts.
Students—especially those in Title I and high-need schools—will receive regular, evidence-based small-group tutoring (e.g., ≥30 minutes, ≥3 days/week), improving chances for accelerated learning recovery.
Teachers, paraprofessionals, community members, and college students will gain expanded paid training, hiring pathways, and workforce-development supports that grow the tutoring pipeline and local capacity.
State and local education agencies and grantees will generate stronger evidence about what tutoring approaches work via required independent evaluations, research partnerships, and funding for rigorous experimental studies.
Taxpayers and federal/state budgets may face substantial increased costs because the bill authorizes uncapped spending and funds paid tutors, workforce development, training, and evaluations.
Small and mid-sized SEAs/LEAs and district staff will face heavy administrative burdens—annual applications, monthly/annual reporting, hiring program administrators, and evaluation requirements—that consume staff time and subgrant funds.
Districts may incur significantly higher local staffing and contracting costs because of mandated service intensity and staffing ratios (e.g., minimum session length, minimum days/week, low student-to-tutor ratios).
Based on analysis of 9 sections of legislative text.
Authorizes FY2026–FY2030 funding to expand high-impact K–12 tutoring via SEA grants, with program standards, evaluations, an Advisory Board, and workforce development.
Creates a federal grant program (FY2026–FY2030) to expand high-impact K–12 tutoring in Title I schools by funding State Educational Agencies (SEAs) that competitively subgrant Local Educational Agencies (LEAs). It sets program standards (minimum tutoring minutes, low student-to-tutor ratios, tutor training and observation, regular evaluation), establishes an Advisory Board to oversee quality and build a nationwide tutoring workforce, and directs funding priorities and evaluations to measure academic recovery and effectiveness.