Adds a new subsection (i) titled 'Promoting advancement through transit help to education grants' that defines terms (including eligible institutions and recipients), authorizes the Secretary to make grants to eligible recipients for projects connecting students and Head Start participants to eligible institutions, enumerates eligible project activities, and sets application and priority requirements.

Adds a set-aside in subsection (c) to carry out a new subsection (k) and adds subsection (k) establishing 'Promoting advancement through transit help to education grants' for nonurbanized areas with definitions, grant authority, eligible projects, and application and priority provisions mirroring those added to 49 U.S.C. 5307.

Redesignates existing paragraphs (3)–(5) as (4)–(6), inserts a new paragraph (3) establishing set-asides to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5307(i) with specified amounts for fiscal years 2027–2031, and updates cross-references in the subsequently redesignated paragraphs to include the new paragraph (3).