Teacher:In this task, you are given text for US Congressional and California state bills, your task is to generate a summary for this bill.
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This Act may be cited as the ''World Language Advancement and
Readiness Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress finds the following:
(1) The national security of the United States continues to
depend on language readiness, in particular among the seventeen
agencies of the Intelligence Community.
(2) The levels of language proficiency required for
national security necessitate long sequences of language
training for personnel in the Intelligence Community and the
Department of Defense.
(3) The future national security and economic well-being of
the United States will depend substantially on the ability of
its citizens to communicate and compete by knowing the
languages and cultures of other countries.
(4) The Federal Government has an interest in ensuring that
the employees of its departments and agencies with national
security responsibilities are prepared to meet the challenges
of this changing international environment.
(5) The Federal Government also has an interest in taking
actions to alleviate the problem of American students being
inadequately prepared to meet the challenges posed by
increasing global interaction among nations.
(6) American elementary schools, secondary schools,
colleges, and universities must place a new emphasis on
improving the teaching of foreign languages, area studies,
counterproliferation studies, and other international fields to
help meet those challenges.

SEC. 3. WORLD LANGUAGE ADVANCEMENT AND READINESS GRANTS.

(a) Program Authority.--The Secretary of Defense, in consultation
with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of
Education, shall carry out a program under which the Secretary of
Defense makes grants, on a competitive basis, to State educational
agencies and local educational agencies to pay the Federal share of the
cost of innovative model programs providing for the establishment,
improvement, or expansion of world language study for elementary school
and secondary school students.
(b) Duration.--Each grant under this Act shall be awarded for a
period of 3 years.
(c) Requirements for State and Local Educational Agencies.--
(1) Grants to state educational agencies.--In awarding a
grant under subsection (a) to a State educational agency, the
Secretary of Defense shall support programs that promote
systemic approaches to improving world language learning in the
State.
(2) Grants to local educational agencies.--In awarding a
grant under subsection (a) to a local educational agency, the
Secretary of Defense shall support programs that--
(A) show the promise of being continued beyond the
grant period;
(B) demonstrate approaches that can be disseminated
to and duplicated in other local educational agencies;
and
(C) may include a professional development
component.
(d) Federal Share.--
(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the
Federal share for each fiscal year shall be 50 percent.
(2) Exception.--The Secretary of Defense may determine the
Federal share for any local educational agency that the
Secretary determines does not have adequate resources to pay
the non-Federal share.
(e) Allocation of Funds.--
(1) Not less than 75 percent of the funds made available to
carry out this Act for a fiscal year shall be used for the
expansion of world language learning in elementary schools.
(2) Not less than 75 percent of the funds made available to
carry out this Act for a fiscal year shall be used to support
instruction in world languages determined by the Secretary of
Defense to be critical to the national security interests of
the United States.
(3) The Secretary of Defense may reserve not more than 5
percent of funds made available to carry out this Act for a
fiscal year to evaluate the efficacy of programs that receive
grants under subsection (a)
(f) Applications.--
(1) In general.--To be considered for a grant under
subsection (a), a State educational agency or local educational
agency shall submit an application to the Secretary of Defense
at such time, in such manner, and containing such information
and assurances as the Secretary may require.
(2) Special consideration.--The Secretary of Defense shall
give special consideration to applications describing programs
that--
(A) include intensive summer world language
programs for professional development of world language
teachers;
(B) link nonnative English speakers in the
community with the schools in order to promote two-way
language learning;
(C) promote the sequential study of a world
language for students, beginning in elementary schools;
(D) make effective use of technology, such as
computer-assisted instruction, language laboratories,
or distance learning, to promote world language study;
(E) promote innovative activities, such as dual
language immersion, partial world language immersion,
or content-based instruction; and
(F) are carried out through a consortium comprised
of the agency receiving the grant, an elementary school
or secondary school, and an institution of higher
education (as that term is defined in section 102 of
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002)).

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

In this Act:
(1) ESEA terms.--The terms ''elementary school'', ''local
educational agency'', ''secondary school'', and ''State
educational agency'' have the meanings given the terms in
section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
(2) World language.--The term ''world language'' means--
(A) any natural language other than English,
including--
(i) languages determined by the Secretary
of Defense to be critical to the national
security interests of the United States;
(ii) classical languages;
(iii) American sign language; and
(iv) Native American languages; and
(B) any language described in subparagraph (A) that
is taught in combination with English as part of a dual
language or immersion learning program.
Student:
World Language Advancement and Readiness Act of 2017 This bill directs the Department of Defense to award three-year competitive grants to state and local educational agencies for the establishment, improvement, or expansion of world language (e.g., foreign language or American Sign Language) programs in elementary and secondary schools.