21st Century Community Learning Centers Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020

21st Century Community Learning Centers Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020

This bill expresses the sense of Congress that the Department of Education (ED) should expand the allowable uses for subgrants provided under the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program for the 2020-2021 school year.

Specifically, ED should carry out the exceptions published in a notice on September 3, 2020, by allowing eligible entities (e.g., local educational agencies and community-based organizations) that are awarded program subgrants for community learning centers to use these subgrants to (1) carry out activities that advance student academic achievement and support student success, regardless of whether such activities are conducted in person, virtually, during school hours, or when school is in session; and (2) provide in-person care during the regular school day and when full-time in-person instruction is not available to students. (Currently, the program only supports academic enrichment opportunities for children during non-school hours or periods when school is not in session.)

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8162 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8162

 To allow eligible entities under part B of title IV of the Elementary 
 and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to use subgrant funds for certain 
  activities carried out by community learning centers, regardless of 
whether such activities are conducted during nonschool hours or periods 
         when school is not in session, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 4, 2020

 Ms. Wild (for herself, Mr. Van Drew, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Young, Ms. 
   Bonamici, and Mr. Evans) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
 To allow eligible entities under part B of title IV of the Elementary 
 and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to use subgrant funds for certain 
  activities carried out by community learning centers, regardless of 
whether such activities are conducted during nonschool hours or periods 
         when school is not in session, and for other purposes.

    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 Community Learning 
Centers Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. FLEXIBLE USE OF SUBGRANT FUNDS.

    (a) Local Activities and In-Person Care.--Notwithstanding each 
provision in part B of title IV of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7171 et seq.) that requires activities 
under such part to be carried out during nonschool hours or periods 
when school is not in session, for school year 2020-2021, an eligible 
entity that is awarded a subgrant under section 4204 of such Act (20 
U.S.C. 7174) for community learning centers may use such subgrant 
funds--
            (1) to carry out activities described in section 4205 of 
        such Act (20 U.S.C. 7175), regardless of whether such 
        activities are conducted in-person or virtually, or during 
        school hours or when school is in session; and
            (2) to provide in-person care during--
                    (A) the regular school day for students eligible to 
                receive services under part B of title IV of such Act 
                (20 U.S.C. 7171 et seq.); and
                    (B) a period in which full-time in-person 
                instruction is not available for all such students 
                served by such eligible entity.
    (b) Requirements.--An eligible entity may carry out the activities 
described in subsection (a)(1) and the in-person care described in 
subsection (a)(2) if--
            (1) such activities and in-person care supplement but do 
        not supplant regular school day requirements;
            (2) such eligible entity complies with section 
        4204(b)(2)(D) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
        1965 (20 U.S.C. 7174(b)(2)(D)) with respect to the activities 
        carried out pursuant to this Act; and
            (3) such eligible entity specifies in an application for a 
        subgrant under section 4204(b) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 7174(b)) 
        with respect to such school year (or in an addendum to such 
        application) how the subgrant funds will be used to carry out 
        such activities or to provide such in-person care, or both.
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