third grade to no more than 15 students, and 
class sizes for all grades thereafter to no more 
than 25 students; 
(K) hire additional nurses, counselors, sup-
port staff, certified special education teachers 
or assistants as required to service the needs of 
the children attending such targeted school; 
(L) implement evidence-based, effective 
strategies for reducing and preventing children 
from dropping out of school; and 
(M) implement enhanced technology and 
vocational instruction. 
(3) WRAP-AROUND SERVICES.—To ensure chil-
dren are provided with the services necessary to re-
ceive a meaningful educational opportunity, the pro-
vision of necessary and appropriate wrap-around 
services each student attending such school may 
need through a program implemented by the school, 
to the extent feasible, to help coordinate the delivery 
of all such needed wrap-around services with high- 
quality providers of such services, except that a tar-
geted school shall utilize no more than 5 percent of 
such grant funds to carry out this paragraph, unless 
such school receives a waiver from the Secretary. 
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(4) EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP.—To support the 
crucial role effective leadership plays in creating a 
meaningful educational opportunity and to attract, 
develop, and keep effective principals and other ad-
ministrators, providing access to appropriate profes-
sional development, mentoring and training pro-
grams and implementing a compensation structure 
necessary to attract highly qualified professionals, 
except that a school may use no more than 5 percent 
of such grant funds to carry out this paragraph, un-
less such school receives a waiver from the Sec-
retary. 
(5) PARENT ENGAGEMENT.—To encourage in-
volvement of parents and guardians in the education 
of their children, implement or enhance effective 
parent engagement strategies and programs, includ-
ing providing parenting education, after-hours adult 
education offerings in basic and advanced knowledge 
and skill areas, professional development that pro-
motes mutual engagement between schools and fami-
lies, adult English language learner classes targeted 
to parents of enrolled students, crisis counseling and 
support for families, and other family-based support 
services, provided that a school shall use no more 
than 10 percent of such grant funds to carry out 
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this paragraph, unless such school receives a waiver 
from the Secretary. 
(6) OTHER USES.—To account for the evolution 
of the concept of a meaningful educational oppor-
tunity, for purposes not included in paragraphs (1) 
through (5), if— 
(A) the State educational agency makes a 
written request to the Secretary for authoriza-
tion to use grant funds for such purpose; 
(B) such request involves— 
(i) implementation of an educational 
practice not enumerated in paragraphs (1) 
through (5) for which there is research- 
based evidence that such practice enhances 
student achievement, learning or critical 
thinking; or 
(ii) creation or implementation of a 
pilot program such State educational agen-
cy believes will enhance student achieve-
ment, learning or critical thinking; and 
(C) the Secretary approves such request in 
writing. 
SEC. 104. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—For the purpose of carrying 
out this title, there are authorized to be appropriated such 
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sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2016 and each 
of the succeeding fiscal years. 
(b) RATABLE REDUCTION.—If the amount appro-
priated under subsection (a) for a fiscal year is not suffi-
cient to award each participating State a grant under this 
title that is equal to the full amount such State is eligible 
to receive for such year the Secretary may ratably reduce 
the amount of each such grant or take other actions nec-
essary to ensure an equitable distribution of such amount. 
TITLE II—EDUCATING EVERY 
CHILD 
SEC. 200. EDUCATING EVERY CHILD INITIATIVE. 
(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this title is to ensure 
that every child in the United States— 
(1) receives the meaningful educational oppor-
tunity necessary for that child to achieve high aca-
demic standards, regardless of the investment made 
in that child’s education by the State or local com-
munity in which the child lives; and 
(2) develop the numeracy and literacy skills 
needed to be competitive in a modern economy and 
to be a contributing, engaged citizen in a vibrant de-
mocracy 
(b) AUTHORIZATION.—The Secretary is authorized to 
carry out a program, known as the ‘‘Educating Every 
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Child Initiative’’, to make annual grants directly to local 
educational agencies that include targeted schools if the 
Secretary determines that the State in which that child 
lives has failed to invest sufficient resources in that State’s 
public education system to create a meaningful edu-
cational opportunity for all children who attend targeted 
schools in that State. Grants the Secretary makes under 
this title shall be referred to as ‘‘Educating Every Child 
Grants.’’ 
SEC. 201. GRANT TERMS. 
(a) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive a grant 
under this title, a local educational agency shall submit 
to the Secretary— 
(1) a plan for utilization of the grant proceeds, 
that shall include only permitted uses described in 
section 103(b); and 
(2) a certification that all targeted schools re-
ceiving Educating Every Child Grants under this 
title shall utilize such grant funds only for such per-
mitted uses. 
(b) USE OF FUNDS.—A local educational agency re-
ceiving such grant under this title shall distribute such 
funds in the amounts, and directly to, the targeted schools 
designated by the Secretary. 
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(c) GRANT AMOUNT.—The maximum amount of a 
grant under this title shall be that amount that, when ag-
gregated with all other Federal, State, and local funds re-
ceived by the targeted schools in such local education 
agency that will receive the funds from such grant, is suf-
ficient to provide a meaningful educational opportunity to 
every child who attends such targeted schools (as deter-
mined by the Secretary using an evidence-based cost anal-
ysis model). 
(d) MINIMUM INVESTMENT REQUIRED.—The State 
in which the targeted schools receiving grants under this 
title are located shall maintain the minimum investment 
(as defined in section 202) in each year such targeted 
schools receive such grants. 
(e) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary shall 
provide each local educational agency that includes tar-
geted schools receiving grants under this title annual tech-
nical assistance grants of $100,000 to support such local 
educational agency’s compliance with the reporting and 
planning obligations of this title, in each year the Sec-
retary makes such grants to targeted schools located in 
such agency. 
SEC. 202. MINIMUM INVESTMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this title, the 
‘‘minimum investment’’ of a State shall mean the total 
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amount of education funding received by targeted schools 
in that State from State and local resources in the com-
plete school year immediately preceding the first year such 
targeted schools receive a grant under section 100(a), in-
creased annually thereafter by the Employment Cost 
Index for the then most recently complete calendar year, 
for each year in which targeted schools in that State re-
ceive such grant. 
(b) REDUCTION OF FUNDING.—If a State fails to 
satisfy its minimum investment obligation under this title, 
then the Department of the Treasury shall reduce other 
Federal funding owed to that State under any Federal 
program other than the Medicaid program under title XIX 
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.), part 
A of title IV and section 1108(b) of the Social Security 
Act (other than under subsections (a)(3) and (b) of section 
403 of such Act), or the special supplemental nutrition 
program for women, infants, and children under section 
17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, on a dollar-for- 
dollar basis, and shall provide an accounting thereof to 
the applicable State. 
SEC. 203. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
For purposes of carrying out this title, there are au-
thorized to be appropriated such sums as may be nec-
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essary for fiscal year 2016 and each of the 5 succeeding 
fiscal years. 
TITLE III—EQUITABLE AND SUS-
TAINABLE 
FISCAL 
POLICY 
PROGRAM 
SEC. 300. EQUITABLE AND SUSTAINABLE FISCAL POLICY. 
(a) PURPOSE.—Recognizing that every State has a 
unique fiscal system, economy and demographic composi-
tion, the purpose of this title is to— 
(1) provide assistance to particular States to re-
form fiscal policies to create adequate State capacity 
to invest sufficiently in ensuring all of the children 
in the State receive a meaningful educational oppor-
tunity; and 
(2) to assist States in reforming their tax poli-
cies to comport with the principles of fair, responsive 
and stable taxation, thereby generating the capacity 
to fund education sufficiently so that all children, in-
cluding those attending targeted schools receive a 
meaningful educational opportunity. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION.—The Secretary is authorized to 
establish the ‘‘Equitable and Sustainable Fiscal Policy’’ 
Program (ESFP), to support efforts by States to reform 
State fiscal policies to create State capacity to invest suffi-
ciently in ensuring all their children receive a meaningful 
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educational opportunity, by comporting with the principles 
of fairness, responsiveness, and stability required for equi-
table and sustainable taxation in a modern economy. 
SEC. 301. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS. 
Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Sec-
retary shall provide technical assistance grants of 
$1,000,000 to each State that submits a complete and ac-
curate application for a grant under this title. The Gov-
ernor of a State that desires to receive such a grant shall 
submit a written application to the Secretary, that— 
(1) outlines the fiscal policy reforms that State 
intends to consider; 
(2) summarizes that State’s current education 
funding system; 
(3) identifies how it intends to enhance State 
funding of targeted schools to provide a meaningful 
educational opportunity to children attending such 
schools; and 
(4) delineates how the proceeds of the grant re-
ceived under this section will be used both to study 
that State’s fiscal policy and generate popular sup-
port for implementing the necessary tax policy re-
forms. 
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SEC. 302. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
For purposes of carrying out this title, there are au-
thorized to be appropriated such sums as may be nec-
essary for fiscal year 2016 and each of the 5 succeeding 
fiscal years. 
TITLE IV—REPORTING AND 
ACCOUNTABILITY 
SEC. 400. ANNUAL REPORTS REQUIRED. 
Each State receiving a grant under title I or local 
educational agency receiving a grant under title II, shall 
file annual reports with the Secretary within 60 days of 
the close of the school year in which the grant is received, 
regarding the utilization of the proceeds of those grants 
which, at a minimum shall specify— 
(1) in detail each targeted school receiving any 
such grant proceeds and the total grant proceeds 
distributed to each such targeted school; 
(2) in detail the specific permitted uses de-
scribed in section 102(b) for which all grant pro-
ceeds were utilized by each targeted school receiving 
the same; 
(3) how funding such permitted uses with grant 
proceeds received under this Act contributes to or 
constitutes part of a comprehensive, strategic plan 
to enhance the capacity of that State’s entire edu-
cational system to enable it to provide a meaningful 
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educational opportunity to all students—but particu-
larly those students attending targeted schools; 
(4) the demographic breakdown of each tar-
geted school and the academic performance of the 
children attending those targeted schools vis-a-vis 
each other, the State’s student body overall, and the 
students attending the 5 percent of schools with the 
highest per pupil funding levels in that State; 
(5) the academic performance of racial and eth-
nic minority students, Indians, and English lan-
guage learners in that State overall and as compared 
to the performance of non-minority students in that 
State; 
(6) specific programming, if any, designed to 
address any achievement gap that appears in the 
comparisons required under paragraph (5); 
(7) per-pupil funding levels in that State broken 
down by decile covering— 
(A) income levels per district, 
(B) property values per district, and 
(C) targeted schools versus all other 
schools; 
(8) professional staffing levels, teacher quali-
fications and class sizes by grade level in targeted 
schools vis-a-vis all other schools in that State; 
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