Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Missed Opportunities in Career and Technical Education Act of 2017”.
Missed Opportunities in Career and Technical Education Act of 2017
A BILL
To amend the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 to require reporting by the Secretary of Education on requests for funding research that were not granted and had the greatest potential for improving career and technical education, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Annual reporting on missed opportunities
Part A of title III of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. 2391 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“319. Annual reporting on missed opportunities
“(a) In general—Not later than the last day of the first fiscal quarter following the end of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall submit a report to Congress—
“(1) identifying—
“(A) the total number of requests that were under review during such fiscal year by any office, agency, institute, or center of the Department of Education for funding, in whole or in part, career and technical education programs; and
“(B) of such total number—
“(i) the number of such requests that were granted;
“(ii) the number of such requests that were denied; and
“(iii) the number of such requests that remained pending at the end of the fiscal year; and
“(2) with respect to the requests described in clauses (ii) and (iii) of paragraph (1)(B), identifying the requests with the greatest potential for improving career and technical education.
“(b) Trade secrets and confidential information—This section does not authorize the Secretary to disclose any information that is a trade secret or confidential information subject to section 552(b)(4) of title 5, United States Code, or section 1905 of title 18, United States Code.”