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HR 1514 113th Congress House

Instructional Leadership Act of 2013

Official title: To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize competitive grants to prepare and train school principals on effective core competencies and instructional leadership skills.

Introduced: April 11, 2013 See on congress.gov
Education Education programs fundingElementary and secondary educationHigher educationLicensing and registrations
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Jul 8, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Apr 11, 2013
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Apr 11, 2013
Introduced in House
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 Latest action July 8, 2013

Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Instructional Leadership Act of 2013 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states, local educational agencies (LEAs), nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, or partnerships or consortia which include at least one of those entities to develop and implement innovative programs and sites to train school principals in instructional leadership skills.

Requires the Secretary to award additional competitive grants to states or partnerships or consortia which include states for pilot programs that evaluate and promote the incorporation of instructional leadership standards into state principal certification or licensure.

Directs the Secretary to establish a definition of "an effective principal" that is based on reports from this Act's grantees and emphasizes instructional leadership standards.

Requires the Secretary to award competitive grants to states and high-need LEAs or partnerships between such LEAs and certain educational entities to develop state-of-the-art principal induction programs that provide new principals a minimum of three years of extensive, high-quality, comprehensive induction into the field of school administration.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1514: Instructional Leadership Act of 2013. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-1514/
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"H.R. 1514: Instructional Leadership Act of 2013." 113th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-1514/.
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H.R. 1514, 113th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-1514/.
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