S.Amdt. 3917

SA 3917. Mr. CASSIDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 3748 proposed by Mr. Wicker (for himself and Mr. Reed)
to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of part I of subtitle F of title V, add the
following:

SEC. 560. EDUCATION WORKFORCE AND TRAINING PROGRAMS.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense, acting through
the Director of the Department of Defense Education Activity,
shall establish education workforce and training programs in
covered schools to implement early intervention, full
immersion, applied-learning, and STEM-based approaches in
core curricula for students in 6th through 9th grades that
result in measurable increases in standardized test scores,
graduation rates, and employment success for those students.
(b) Development.--The programs required by subsection (a)
shall be developed based on existing research data.
(c) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Covered school.--The term ``covered school'' means an
elementary and secondary school--
(A) operated by the Department of Defense Education
Activity; and
(B) in a public school system that serves children of
members of the Armed Forces.
(2) STEM.--The term ``STEM'' means science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics.
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