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(B) Online or software-based courses in 
foreign languages, especially in languages iden-
tified as critical or in schools where a teacher 
is not available to teach the language or course 
level a student requires. 
(C) 
Online 
advanced 
or 
college-level 
courses that can be taken for credit. 
(b) AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS.—An eligible part-
nership receiving a grant under this title may use grant 
funds to— 
(1) develop or implement the technology for 
technology-based 
learning 
strategies, 
practices, 
courses, or tools to be carried out under the grant; 
(2) purchase hardware or software needed to 
carry out such strategies, practices, courses, or tools 
under the grant, except that such purchases may not 
exceed 50 percent of total grant funds; 
(3) address the particular needs of student sub-
groups, including students with disabilities and 
English-language learners; 
(4) provide technology-based professional devel-
opment or professional development on how to maxi-
mize the utility of technology; and 
(5) address issues of cost and capacity in rural 
areas and shortage subjects. 
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(c) SUPPLEMENTATION.—An eligible partnership 
that receives a grant under this title shall use the grant 
funds to supplement, not supplant, the work of teachers 
with students, and may not use such funds to reduce staff-
ing levels for the school partners in the eligible partner-
ship. 
(d) TEACHER OF RECORD.—For each student in a 
class or school implementing a practice, tool, strategy, or 
course using grant funds provided under this title, there 
shall be a teacher of record, holding the relevant certifi-
cation or license, and otherwise qualified to implement any 
digitally-based practice, tool, strategy or course using the 
grant funds. An eligible partnership shall use grant funds 
provided under this title, and shall determine the extent 
and nature of pedagogical uses of digital tools, in a man-
ner that is consistent with the judgments of teachers of 
record about what is developmentally appropriate for stu-
dents. 
SEC. 907. DATA COLLECTION AND EVALUATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Each eligible partnership receiv-
ing a grant under this title shall require its evaluation 
partner to complete an independent, comprehensive, well- 
designed, and well-implemented evaluation that meets the 
standards of the What Works Clearinghouse after the 
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third year of implementation of the grant to measure the 
effect of the practice, tool, strategy, or course on— 
(1) growth in student achievement, as measured 
by high quality assessments that provide objective, 
valid, reliable measures of student academic growth 
and information on whether a student is on-track to 
graduate ready for college and career; 
(2) costs and savings to the school partner; and 
(3) at least one of the following: 
(A) Student achievement gaps. 
(B) Graduation and dropout rates. 
(C) College enrollment. 
(D) College persistence. 
(E) College completion. 
(F) Placement in a living-wage job. 
(G) Enhanced teacher or principal effec-
tiveness as measured by valid, reliable, and 
multiple measures of student achievement and 
other appropriate measures. 
(b) EVALUATION.—The Secretary shall— 
(1) acting through the Director of the Institute 
of Education Sciences— 
(A) evaluate the implementation and im-
pact of the activities supported under the grant 
program authorized under this section; and 
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(B) identify best practices; and 
(2) disseminate, in consultation with the re-
gional educational laboratories established under 
part D of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 
2002 and comprehensive centers established under 
the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002, 
research on best practices in school leadership. 
(c) IMPLEMENTATION EVALUATION.—An evaluation 
partner may use funds under this title to carry out an 
implementation evaluation designed to provide information 
that may be useful for schools, local educational agencies, 
States, consortia of schools, and charter school networks 
seeking to implement similar practices, tools, strategies, 
or courses in the future. 
(d) PUBLICATION OF RESULTS.—Upon completion of 
an evaluation described in subsection (a), (b), or (c) the 
evaluation partner shall— 
(1) submit a report of the results of the evalua-
tion to the Secretary; and 
(2) make publicly available such results. 
SEC. 908. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
(1) ELIGIBLE PARTNERSHIP.—The term ‘‘eligi-
ble partnership’’ means a partnership that includes 
a school partner and not less than 1— 
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(A) digital learning partner, except that in 
a case in which a school partner or evaluation 
partner demonstrates expertise in digital learn-
ing to the Secretary; and 
(B) evaluation partner. 
(2) SCHOOL PARTNER.—The term ‘‘school part-
ner’’ means a— 
(A) local educational agency; 
(B) a charter school network that does not 
include virtual schools; 
(C) a consortium of public elementary 
schools or secondary schools; 
(D) a regional educational service agency 
or similar regional educational service provider; 
or 
(E) a consortium of the entities described 
in subparagraphs (A) through (D). 
(3) DIGITAL LEARNING PARTNER.—The term 
‘‘digital learning partner’’ means an organization 
with expertise in the technology required to develop 
or implement the digital learning practices, tools, 
strategies, or courses proposed by the school partner 
with which the digital learning partner will partner 
or has partnered under this title, such as— 
(A) an institution of higher education; 
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(B) a nonprofit organization; or 
(C) an organization with school develop-
ment or turnaround experience. 
(4) EVALUATION PARTNER.—The term ‘‘evalua-
tion partner’’ means a partner that has the expertise 
and ability to carry out the evaluation of a grant re-
ceived under this title, such as— 
(A) an institution of higher education; 
(B) a nonprofit organization with expertise 
in evaluation; or 
(C) an evaluation firm. 
(5) INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.—The 
term ‘‘institution of higher education’’ has the 
meaning given the term in section 102 of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002). 
(6) LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY.—The term 
‘‘local educational agency’’ has the meaning given 
the term in section 9101 of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 
(7) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Education. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 8, 2015. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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