SHOP CLASS Act

Bill: 115-s-1501
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2017-06-29
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding

Manufacturing

Product development and innovation

Teaching, teachers, curricula

Vocational and technical education
Latest action: action_date: 2017-06-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-06-29
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>21st Century Strengthening Hands On Programs that Cultivate Learning Approaches for Successful Students Act or the SHOP CLASS Act</b></p> <p>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).</p> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1501 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 A BILL To amend the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 to support maker education and makerspaces.

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 . 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. . 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. . 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 .