Coding Opportunities and Development for Equitable Students Act or the High School CODES Act
This bill amends the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 to direct the Department of Education (ED) to carry out a coding demonstration program. Under the program, ED shall award grants to local educational agencies for the establishment or expansion of programs that allow high-school students to take a coding class in place of a mathematics, science, or foreign language class as graduation requirement.
[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6334 Introduced in House (IH)]
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115th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6334
To support coding education.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 11, 2018
Mr. Cardenas (for himself and Mr. Olson) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce
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A BILL
To support coding education.
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 ``Coding Opportunities and Development
for Equitable Students Act'' or the ``High School CODES Act''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) Coding.--The term ``coding'' has the meaning given the
term in section 114(e)(6) of the Carl D. Perkins Career and
Technical Education Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. 2324(e)(6)).
(2) Computer science.--The term ``computer science'' means
the study of computers and algorithmic processes, including the
principles, hardware and software designs, implementation, and
impact on society, of computers and algorithmic processes.
SEC. 3. SENSE OF THE HOUSE.
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that--
(1) States should support high schools in recognizing
coding and computer science classes as classes that count
toward the fulfillment of graduation requirements;
(2) it should be a priority to create a national strategy
to incorporate computer science and coding into the elementary
and secondary educational system in the United States;
(3) learning to write and read code is critical to creating
and innovating in cyberspace, and learning to write and read
code is a skill critical to the national security and economic
competitiveness of the United States; and
(4) the modernization of the educational system in the
United States is a priority, and modernization is necessary to
bolster the next generation of high-tech workers.
SEC. 4. CODING DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM.
Section 114 of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education
Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. 2324) is amended--
(1) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (f);
(2) in subsection (d)(2)(A), by striking ``subsection (e)''
and inserting ``subsection (f)'';
(3) in subsection (d)(4)(A), by striking ``subsection (e)''
and inserting ``subsection (f)''; and
(4) by inserting after subsection (d) the following:
``(e) Coding Demonstration Program.--
``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall carry out a coding
demonstration program, through which the Secretary shall award
grants to local educational agencies to enable those local
educational agencies to establish new programs or expand
existing programs that allow high school students to take a
coding class in place of a mathematics, science, or foreign
language class in order to fulfill a graduation requirement.
``(2) Application.--
``(A) In general.--A local educational agency
desiring a grant under this subsection shall submit an
application to the Secretary at such time, in such
manner, and containing such information as the
Secretary may require, including the information
described in subparagraph (B).
``(B) Contents.--An application submitted under
subparagraph (A) shall include--
``(i) a strategy for obtaining future
funding to sustain the program after the grant
has ended from State, private, or other non-
Federal funding sources;
``(ii) a spending plan;
``(iii) a description of the goals of the
program; and
``(iv) a description of the statistics the
local educational agency will collect to
include in the local educational agency's
report to the Secretary described under
paragraph (4).
``(3) Priority.--In awarding grants under this subsection,
the Secretary shall give priority to a local educational agency
submitting an application under paragraph (2) that is located
in a rural or underserved area.
``(4) Report.--Not later than 5 years after the date of
enactment of this subsection, each local educational agency
receiving a grant under paragraph (1) shall submit to the
Secretary a report about the coding program activities carried
out with grant funds, including information and statistics
about that program's findings, successes, and failures.
``(5) Sunset.--This subsection shall remain in effect until
the date that is 5 years after the date of enactment of this
subsection.
``(6) Definitions.--
``(A) Coding.--In this subsection, the term
`coding' means the creation and modification of--
``(i) source code (defined as any series of
statements written in some human-readable
computer programming language); or
``(ii) machine code (defined as
instructions for a computer processor in some
machine language).
``(B) High school.--In this subsection, the term
`high school' has the meaning given the term in section
8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).''.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
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