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S 3596 115th Congress Senate Education Academic performance and assessments Administrative law and regulatory procedures Congressional oversight Department of Education Education of the disadvantaged Government studies and investigations Higher education Student aid and college costs

Innovation Zone Act

Introduced: October 11, 2018 Introduced by: Young, Todd Republican · Indiana See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Oct 11, 2018
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Innovation Zone Act

This bill replaces the Experimental Sites Initiative of the Department of Education (ED) with an innovation zone initiative consisting of voluntary experiments by participating institutions of higher education. Under the experiments, ED and the institutions may test the effectiveness of statutory and regulatory flexibility that aims for: (1) an increase in student success (e.g., reductions in student loan debt and increases in student retention and employment outcomes); and (2) a reduction of regulations on institutions or ED, without harm to students.

What's happening now October 11, 2018

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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All 2 Democratic 2
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Hassan, Margaret Wood
New Hampshire · Oct 11, 2018
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Kaine, Tim
Virginia · Oct 11, 2018
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3596: Innovation Zone Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-3596/
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"S. 3596: Innovation Zone Act." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-3596/.
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