Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Strengthening Education through Research Act”.
Strengthening Education through Research Act
AN ACT
To strengthen the Federal education research system to make research and evaluations more timely and relevant to State and local needs in order to increase student achievement.
Sec. 2 Table of contents
The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 3 Nonduplication
In general— The Act of November 5, 2002 (Public Law 107–279; 116 Stat. 1940), is amended by inserting after section 1 the following:
“2. Nonduplication
“In collecting information and data under this Act, including requiring the reporting of information and data, the Secretary of Education shall, to the extent appropriate, not duplicate other requirements and shall use information and data that are available from existing Federal, State, and local sources, in order to reduce burden and cost to the Department of Education, States, local educational agencies (as defined in section 9101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801)), and other entities.”
Conforming amendment— The table of contents in section 1 of the Act of November 5, 2002 (Public Law 107–279; 116 Stat. 1940), is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1 the following: