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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1055 

To authorize the Secretary of Education to establish the National Program 

for Arts and Technology. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MAY 23, 2013 

Mr. CASEY (for himself and Mr. BROWN) introduced the following bill; which 

was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 

Labor, and Pensions 

A BILL 

To authorize the Secretary of Education to establish the 

National Program for Arts and Technology. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Program for 

5 Arts and Technology Act of 2013’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDING AND PURPOSES. 

7 (a) FINDING.—Congress finds that the National Pro8 gram for Arts and Technology established under this Act 

9 will be one of the first national replication programs in 

10 the United States dedicated to addressing the complex 


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1 needs of the poor and undereducated by improving the 

2 sustainability of neighborhoods, communities, and regions. 

3 (b) PURPOSES.—It is the purpose of this Act to es4 tablish the National Program for Arts and Technology to 

5 provide competitive grants for qualified centers and inter6 ested communities to establish a qualified center that 

7 adopts the guidelines set forth by the Secretary, for the 

8 purposes of— 

9 (1) creating an institution within an environ10 ment of poverty where individuals feel and foster a 

11 sense of belonging, and are valued and treated with 

12 dignity; 

13 (2) creating professional jobs for instructors, 

14 trainers, artists, administrators, and others; 

15 (3) collaborating with Federal agencies, private 

16 industry, nonprofit philanthropic organizations, and 

17 planning and economic development organizations to 

18 leverage other investment dollars on behalf of all 

19 stakeholders; 

20 (4) assisting business and industry to achieve 

21 long-term vitality by ensuring the development of a 

22 trained and knowledgeable workforce; 

23 (5) coordinating with existing social service en24 tities and nonprofit organizations on developing di25 verse and equitable communities; 


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1 (6) developing industry specific job training 

2 programs for the under and unemployed that are 

3 both affordable and accessible; 

4 (7) bridging the gap between education and life5 long learning for poor performing students through 

6 the discipline of craftsmanship in the visual arts; 

7 and 

8 (8) developing complimentary extended day or 

9 year programming in partnership with the local pub10 lic schools to help engage at-risk students by con11 necting classroom instruction with applied and expe12 riential programming in the arts. 

13 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 

14 In this Act: 

15 (1) CENTER OF ORIGIN.—The term ‘‘Center of 

16 Origin’’ means Manchester Bidwell, nonprofit cor17 poration, the education and community development 

18 model upon which the National Program for Arts 

19 and Technology is based. 

20 (2) INTERESTED COMMUNITIES.—The term 

21 ‘‘interested community’’ means a community that 

22 does the following: 

23 (A) Demonstrates to the Secretary finan24 cial support from 1 or more of the following: 

25 (i) Sectors of government. 


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1 (ii) Education. 

2 (iii) Philanthropy. 

3 (iv) Social services. 

4 (v) Corporations. 

5 (vi) Arts organizations. 

6 (B) Convenes an advisory committee com7 prised of diverse community stakeholders who 

8 are committed to creating a qualified center in 

9 their community. 

10 (C) Has identified potential funding that 

11 will be used to secure the Federal matching re12 quirements described in section 4(c). 

13 (3) NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR ARTS AND TECH14 NOLOGY.—The term ‘‘National Program for Arts 

15 and Technology’’ means a program that is based on 

16 the education and training model of Manchester 

17 Bidwell. 

18 (4) QUALIFIED CENTER.—The term ‘‘qualified 

19 center’’ means a private, nonprofit educational entity 

20 that complies with the following: 

21 (A) Operates under the guidelines and 

22 practices established by the National Program 

23 for Arts and Technology, in consultation with 

24 the Secretary, and— 


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1 (i) provides education and training to 

2 underemployed or unemployed individuals 

3 in industry specific job skills; 

4 (ii) is accessible to communities and 

5 neighborhoods that have limited access to 

6 transportation; 

7 (iii) compliments the learning of tar8 geted public middle school or high school 

9 students who are at-risk of dropping out of 

10 school; and 

11 (iv) is housed in a facility that has 

12 been reclaimed and renovated to sustain13 able building standards or newly con14 structed as a highly efficient green space. 

15 (B) Has a valid affiliation agreement with 

16 the Center of Origin and complies with the fol17 lowing: 

18 (i) Meets quarterly performance goals, 

19 which may include— 

20 (I) students’ school attendance 

21 and behavior; 

22 (II) retention in programming; 

23 (III) meeting and exceeding re24 cruitment and enrollment metrics; 


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1 (IV) student outcomes and per2 formance in training; and 

3 (V) job placement. 

4 (ii) Adheres to essential operating 

5 conditions, including environment, targeted 

6 populations, and educational model. 

7 (iii) Participates in professional devel8 opment opportunities for members of the 

9 board, executives, and staff. 

10 (5) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 

11 the Secretary of Education. 

12 SEC. 4. GRANT PROGRAM. 

13 (a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—From the amounts ap14 propriated to carry out this Act, the Secretary shall estab15 lish and implement the National Program for Arts and 

16 Technology to award grants, on a competitive basis, to 

17 qualified centers and interested communities to— 

18 (1) provide financial support to the centers and 

19 communities to establish a new qualified center to 

20 carry out the purposes described in section 2(b); and 

21 (2) provide management expertise to guide the 

22 centers and communities through the 3-phase rep23 lication protocol developed by the Center of Origin 

24 to ensure standardization across all qualified centers 


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1 as to performance goals and objectives, operating 

2 culture, and teaching models. 

3 (b) LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS.—Federal funds 

4 received under this Act may not be used for capital ex5 penditures or endowment gifts. 

6 (c) MATCHING FUNDS REQUIRED.—To be eligible to 

7 receive a grant under this Act, a qualified center or inter8 ested community shall, for each fiscal year for which the 

9 grant is received, provide non-Federal contributions 

10 (which may include in-kind contributions) toward the 

11 amount of the grant in an amount equal to $1 for each 

12 $1 of Federal funds provided under the grant. 

13 (d) APPLICATION AND ANNUAL REPORT.— 

14 (1) APPLICATION.— 

15 (A) IN GENERAL.—To be eligible to receive 

16 a grant under this Act, a qualified center or in17 terested community shall submit an application 

18 to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, 

19 and containing such information as the Sec20 retary may require. 

21 (B) CONTENT.—An application submitted 

22 under subparagraph (A) shall, at a minimum, 

23 contain— 

24 (i) a description of activities to be car25 ried out under the grant; 


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1 (ii) information on specific measurable 

2 goals and objectives to be achieved through 

3 activities carried out under the grant; 

4 (iii) evidence of an affiliation with a 

5 local community; and 

6 (iv) evidence of a teaching model con7 sistent with the Secretary’s criteria pre8 scribed pursuant to regulations. 

9 (2) ANNUAL REPORT.— 

10 (A) IN GENERAL.—Each qualified center 

11 or interested community receiving a grant 

12 under this Act shall submit to the Secretary an 

13 annual report at such time, in such manner, 

14 and containing such information as the Sec15 retary may require. 

16 (B) CONTENT.—An annual report sub17 mitted under subparagraph (A) shall, at a min18 imum, describe the degree to which progress 

19 has been made toward meeting the specific 

20 measurable goals and objectives described in the 

21 applications submitted under paragraph (1). 

22 (e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 

23 authorized to be appropriated $25,000,000 to carry out 

24 this Act for the period of fiscal years 2014 through 2018. 

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