Title: SHOP CLASS Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
21st Century Strengthening Hands On Programs that Cultivate Learning Approaches for Successful Students Act or the SHOP CLASS Act
This bill amends the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 to require state leadership activities funded under such Act to include: (1) professional development programs to ensure that public school teachers of career and technical education develop a higher level of academic and industry knowledge and skills in maker education (a hands-on-learning approach that encourages students to imagine, create, innovate, tinker, and collaborate through the process of manufacturing, testing, and demonstrating their ideas); and (2) support for maker education and makerspaces (a community space that provides access to tools, technology, and knowledge for learners and entrepreneurs, that result in the prototyping or creation of physical goods, and that supports the development of educational opportunities for personal growth, workforce training, and early stage business ventures).
The bill requires local educational agencies' use of funds under such Act to include support for career and technical education programs designed to train teachers in the effective use and application of maker education and makerspaces.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1501 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1501

To amend the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 
              to support maker education and makerspaces.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 29, 2017

 Mrs. Gillibrand (for herself and Mr. Young) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 
              to support maker education and makerspaces.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``21st Century Strengthening Hands On 
Programs that Cultivate Learning Approaches for Successful Students 
Act'' or the ``SHOP CLASS Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    Section 3 of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act 
of 2006 (20 U.S.C. 2302) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(35) Maker education.--The term `maker education' means a 
        hands-on learning approach that encourages students to imagine, 
        create, innovate, tinker, and collaborate through the process 
        of manufacturing, testing, and demonstrating their ideas.
            ``(36) Makerspace.--The term `makerspace' means a community 
        space that provides access to tools, technology and knowledge 
        for learners and entrepreneurs, which result in the prototyping 
        or creation of physical goods, and which supports the 
        development of educational opportunities for personal growth, 
        workforce training, and early stage business ventures.''.

SEC. 3. STATE LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES.

    Section 124 of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education 
Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. 2344) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(3)(D)(iii), by inserting before the 
        semicolon at the end the following: ``and maker education''; 
        and
            (2) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph 
                (16)(B);
                    (B) by striking the period and inserting ``; and'' 
                at the end of paragraph (17); and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(18) support for maker education and makerspaces.''.

SEC. 4. LOCAL USES OF FUNDS.

    Section 135 of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education 
Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. 2355) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(5)--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph 
                (C);
                    (B) by adding ``and'' at the end of subparagraph 
                (D); and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(E) programs designed to train teachers 
                specifically in the effective use and application of 
                maker education and makerspaces;''; and
            (2) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph 
                (19)(D);
                    (B) by redesignating paragraph (20) as paragraph 
                (21); and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (19), the 
                following:
            ``(20) to support maker education and makerspaces; and''.
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