the Committee on Education and the Workforce and 
the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of 
the House of Representatives, and the Committees 
on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives. 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated $1,500,000 to carry out 
this section for fiscal year 2014 and such sums as may 
be necessary for each fiscal year thereafter.’’. 
SEC. 4. ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY FOR 
EDUCATION. 
Title II of the Department of Education Organization 
Act (20 U.S.C. 3411 et seq.), as amended by section 2 
of this Act, is further amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘SEC. 222. ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY FOR 
EDUCATION. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There shall be in the De-
partment an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Edu-
cation (referred to in this section as ‘ARPA–ED’). 
‘‘(b) PURPOSES.—ARPA–ED is established under 
this section for the purposes of pursuing breakthrough re-
search and development in educational technology and 
providing the effective use of the technology to improve 
achievement for all students, by— 
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‘‘(1) integrating STEM related content areas 
including science, technology, computer science, en-
gineering design, mathematics and computational 
thinking; 
‘‘(2) identifying and promoting revolutionary 
advances in fundamental and applied sciences and 
engineering that could be translated into new learn-
ing technologies; 
‘‘(3) developing novel learning technologies, and 
the enabling processes and contexts for effective use 
of those technologies; 
‘‘(4) developing, testing, and evaluating the im-
pact and efficacy of those technologies; 
‘‘(5) developing educational technology innova-
tions including data analytic tools that help State 
educational agencies and local educational agencies 
with reporting required under Federal accountability 
mandates; 
‘‘(6) accelerating transformational technological 
advances in areas in which the private sector, by 
itself, is not likely to accelerate such advances be-
cause of difficulties in implementation or adoption, 
or technical and market uncertainty; 
‘‘(7) coordinating activities with nongovern-
mental entities to demonstrate technologies and re-
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search applications to facilitate technology transfer; 
and 
‘‘(8) encouraging educational research using 
new technologies and the data produced by the tech-
nologies. 
‘‘(c) COORDINATION.— 
‘‘(1) The Agency shall work closely and collabo-
ratively between agencies in order to maximize the 
Federal effort and investment to the Project. 
‘‘(2) The Agency shall work with the National 
Science Foundation’s Cyber Learning Program. 
‘‘(d) AUTHORITIES OF SECRETARY.—The Secretary 
is authorized to— 
‘‘(1) appoint a Director, who shall be respon-
sible for carrying out the purposes of ARPA–ED, as 
described in subsection (b), and such additional 
functions as the Secretary may prescribe; 
‘‘(2) establish processes for the development 
and execution of projects and the solicitation of enti-
ties to carry out the projects in a manner that is— 
‘‘(A) tailored to the purposes of ARPA– 
ED and not constrained by other Department- 
wide administrative requirements that could de-
tract from achieving program results; and 
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‘‘(B) designed to heighten transparency, 
and public- and private-sector involvement, to 
ensure that investments are made in the most 
promising areas; 
‘‘(3) award grants, contracts, cooperative agree-
ments, and cash prizes, and enter into other trans-
actions (in accordance with such regulations as the 
Secretary may establish regarding other trans-
actions); 
‘‘(4) obtain independent, periodic, rigorous eval-
uations, as appropriate, of— 
‘‘(A) the effectiveness of the processes 
ARPA–ED is using to achieve its purposes; and 
‘‘(B) the effectiveness of individual projects 
assisted by ARPA–ED, using evidence stand-
ards developed in consultation with the Insti-
tute of Education Sciences, and the suitability 
of ongoing projects assisted by ARPA–ED for 
further investment or increased scale; and 
‘‘(5) disseminate, through the comprehensive 
centers established under section 203 of the Edu-
cational Technical Assistance Act of 2002 (20 
U.S.C. 9602), the regional educational laboratories 
system established under section 174 of the Edu-
cation Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (20 U.S.C. 
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9564), or such other means as the Secretary deter-
mines to be appropriate, information on effective 
practices and technologies developed with ARPA–ED 
support. 
‘‘(e) EVALUATION FUNDS.—The Secretary may use 
funds made available for ARPA–ED to pay the cost of 
the evaluations under subsection (c)(6). 
‘‘(f) FEDERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ACT.—Not-
withstanding any other provision of law, any advisory com-
mittee convened by the Secretary to provide advice with 
respect to this section shall be exempt from the require-
ments of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. 
App.) and the definition of ‘employee’ in section 2105 of 
title 5, United States Code, shall not be considered to in-
clude any appointee to such a committee. 
‘‘(g) NONDUPLICATION.—To the maximum extent 
practicable, the Secretary shall ensure that grants, con-
tracts, cooperative agreements, cash prizes, or other as-
sistance or arrangements awarded or entered into pursu-
ant to this section that are designed to carry out the pur-
poses of ARPA–ED do not duplicate activities under pro-
grams carried out under Federal law other than this sec-
tion by the Department or other Federal agencies.’’. 
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