Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “School Turnaround and Rewards Act of 2013” or the “STAR Act of 2013”.
School Turnaround and Rewards Act of 2013
A BILL
To improve outcomes for students in persistently low-performing schools, to create a culture of recognizing, rewarding, and replicating educational excellence, to authorize school turnaround grants, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Purposes
The purposes of this Act are to—
significantly improve outcomes for students in persistently low-performing schools by—
building the capacity of State educational agencies and local educational agencies to improve student academic achievement in low-performing and persistently low-performing schools;
supporting States and local educational agencies in implementing school intervention models; and
targeting State and local supports and strategies on the persistently lowest-performing schools in each State; and
create a culture of recognizing, rewarding, and replicating educational excellence in every State by—
providing financial and other incentives and rewards to schools that are identified as Reward Schools; and
supporting State educational agency efforts to identify, collect, and disseminate effective practices for increasing student academic achievement used by Reward Schools.