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113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2152 
To authorize the Secretary of Education to establish the National Program 
for Arts and Technology. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 23, 2013 
Mr. DOYLE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of Education to establish the 
National Program for Arts and Technology. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Program for 
Arts and Technology Act of 2013’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDING AND PURPOSES. 
(a) FINDING.—Congress finds that the National Pro-
gram for Arts and Technology established under this Act 
will be one of the first national replication programs in 
the United States dedicated to addressing the complex 
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needs of the poor and undereducated by improving the 
sustainability of neighborhoods, communities, and regions. 
(b) PURPOSES.—It is the purpose of this Act to es-
tablish the National Program for Arts and Technology to 
provide competitive grants for qualified centers and inter-
ested communities to establish a qualified center that 
adopts the guidelines set forth by the Secretary, for the 
purposes of— 
(1) creating an institution within an environ-
ment of poverty where individuals feel and foster a 
sense of belonging, and are valued and treated with 
dignity; 
(2) creating professional jobs for instructors, 
trainers, artists, administrators, and others; 
(3) collaborating with Federal agencies, private 
industry, nonprofit philanthropic organizations, and 
planning and economic development organizations to 
leverage other investment dollars on behalf of all 
stakeholders; 
(4) assisting business and industry to achieve 
long-term vitality by ensuring the development of a 
trained and knowledgeable workforce; 
(5) coordinating with existing social service en-
tities and nonprofit organizations on developing di-
verse and equitable communities; 
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(6) developing industry specific job training 
programs for the under and unemployed that are 
both affordable and accessible; 
(7) bridging the gap between education and life-
long learning for poor performing students through 
the discipline of craftsmanship in the visual arts; 
and 
(8) developing complimentary extended day or 
year programming in partnership with the local pub-
lic schools to help engage at-risk students by con-
necting classroom instruction with applied and expe-
riential programming in the arts. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) CENTER OF ORIGIN.—The term ‘‘Center of 
Origin’’ means Manchester Bidwell, nonprofit cor-
poration, the education and community development 
model upon which the National Program for Arts 
and Technology is based. 
(2) INTERESTED
COMMUNITIES.—The term 
‘‘interested community’’ means a community that 
does the following: 
(A) Demonstrates to the Secretary finan-
cial support from 1 or more of the following: 
(i) Sectors of government. 
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(ii) Education. 
(iii) Philanthropy. 
(iv) Social services. 
(v) Corporations. 
(vi) Arts organizations. 
(B) Convenes an advisory committee com-
prised of diverse community stakeholders who 
are committed to creating a qualified center in 
their community. 
(C) Has identified potential funding that 
will be used to secure the Federal matching re-
quirements described in section 4(c). 
(3) NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR ARTS AND TECH-
NOLOGY.—The term ‘‘National Program for Arts 
and Technology’’ means a program that is based on 
the education and training model of Manchester 
Bidwell. 
(4) QUALIFIED CENTER.—The term ‘‘qualified 
center’’ means a private, nonprofit educational entity 
that complies with the following: 
(A) Operates under the guidelines and 
practices established by the National Program 
for Arts and Technology, in consultation with 
the Secretary, and— 
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(i) provides education and training to 
underemployed or unemployed individuals 
in industry specific job skills; 
(ii) is accessible to communities and 
neighborhoods that have limited access to 
transportation; 
(iii) compliments the learning of tar-
geted public middle school or high school 
students who are at-risk of dropping out of 
school; and 
(iv) is housed in a facility that has 
been reclaimed and renovated to sustain-
able building standards or newly con-
structed as a highly efficient green space. 
(B) Has a valid affiliation agreement with 
the Center of Origin and complies with the fol-
lowing: 
(i) Meets quarterly performance goals, 
which may include— 
(I) students’ school attendance 
and behavior; 
(II) retention in programming; 
(III) meeting and exceeding re-
cruitment and enrollment metrics; 
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