(14) Teen childbearing in the United States 
cost taxpayers (Federal, State and local) at least 
$10.9 billion in 2008. 
(15) Title IX of the Education Amendments of 
1972 (20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.) prohibits educational 
institutions that receive Federal funding from dis-
criminating against pregnant and parenting stu-
dents, and its implementing regulations detail 
schools’ obligations to ensure that pregnant and par-
enting students have access to equal educational op-
portunities. 
(16) Some States currently collect data about 
the pregnancy and parenting status of secondary 
school students, but most do not, and there is no na-
tionwide data collection on this important dimension 
of the student population. 
(17) Some local educational agencies are mak-
ing active efforts to engage and re-engage pregnant 
and parenting youth in secondary education by im-
plementing voluntary programs that provide or ar-
range academic and support services for them, in-
cluding individualized graduation plans, flexible 
scheduling, homebound instruction for extended ab-
sences, school-based child care, transportation assist-
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ance, health and social service referrals, and parent 
education courses. 
(18) The responsibilities of pregnancy and par-
enting can also interfere with the attainment of a 
college degree. 61 percent of women who have chil-
dren after enrolling in community college do not 
graduate. Women who do not have children after en-
rollment graduate at a 65 percent higher rate than 
women who do. 
(19) Federal financial assistance to local edu-
cational agencies to start or expand voluntary stu-
dent academic and support service programs and ini-
tiatives for pregnant and parenting students is im-
perative to helping these students prepare for ca-
reers and post-secondary education opportunities, 
and care for their children without need for long- 
term public assistance. 
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act are— 
(1) to ensure that each pregnant and parenting 
student has equal access to the same free, appro-
priate, high-quality public education that is provided 
to other students; 
(2) to improve high school graduation rates, ca-
reer-readiness, access to postsecondary educational 
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opportunities, and outcomes for pregnant and par-
enting students and their children; and 
(3) to assist each State and local educational 
agency in improving its graduation rates and ful-
filling its responsibilities under title IX of the Edu-
cation Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. 1681 et 
seq.) with respect to pregnant and parenting stu-
dents. 
SEC. 3. GRANTS FOR STATE AND LOCAL ACTIVITIES FOR 
THE EDUCATION OF PREGNANT AND PAR-
ENTING STUDENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Education is au-
thorized to make grants to States to carry out the activi-
ties described in subsection (d). A grant made under this 
section shall be for a minimum of 3 years, and the Sec-
retary shall have the discretion to renew the grant at the 
end of the grant period. 
(b) APPLICATION.—A State desiring to receive a 
grant under this section shall submit an application to the 
Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing 
such information as the Secretary may reasonably require, 
including, at a minimum, the State plan described in sub-
section (f). 
(c) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS.— 
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(1) RESERVATION
OF
FUNDS
FOR
NATIONAL 
ACTIVITIES.—From the funds made available to 
carry out this Act, the Secretary may reserve not 
more than 5 percent for national activities. 
(2) ALLOTMENT TO THE SECRETARY OF THE 
INTERIOR.—The amount allocated for payments 
under this Act to the Secretary of the Interior for 
any fiscal year shall be, as determined pursuant to 
criteria established by the Secretary, the amount 
necessary to meet the needs of— 
(A) Indian children on reservations served 
by secondary schools for Indian children oper-
ated or supported by the Department of the In-
terior; and 
(B) out-of-State Indian children in elemen-
tary schools and secondary schools in local edu-
cational agencies under special contracts with 
the Department of the Interior. 
(3) FORMULA GRANTS TO STATES.—The Sec-
retary shall allocate to States having approved appli-
cations the funds remaining after the application of 
paragraphs (1) and (2) based on the percentage of 
the State’s number of teen births compared to the 
number of teen births nationally, except that the 
minimum grant for a State shall be $300,000. 
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(4) 
SUPPLEMENT
NOT
SUPPLANT.—Grant 
funds provided under paragraph (3) shall be used 
only to supplement the funds that would, in the ab-
sence of such Federal funds, be made available from 
non-Federal sources for the education of pupils par-
ticipating in programs assisted under this Act, and 
not to supplant such funds. 
(d) USE OF FUNDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Funds made available to a 
State under this Act shall be used for the following: 
(A) To provide or enhance educational pro-
grams and related services that enable pregnant 
and parenting students to enroll in, attend, and 
succeed in school, and that are culturally and 
linguistically competent. 
(B) To designate a Coordinator for Edu-
cation of Pregnant and Parenting Students in 
the State educational agency to direct and man-
age the State educational agency’s activities re-
lated to this Act, in collaboration with the 
State’s designated employee responsible for the 
State’s efforts to comply with and carry out, to 
the fullest extent, its responsibilities under title 
IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 
U.S.C. 1681 et seq.). 
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