Summer Meals and Learning Act of 2026
Official title: A bill to create a new Federal grant program that provides grants to State libraries to allow schools with summer lunch programs to keep their libraries open for student use during the summer months.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Summer Meals and Learning Act of 2026
This bill establishes a grant program to support summer early reading programs held at schools with a summer lunch site.
Specifically, the Department of Education must use funds provided for the program to award competitive grants to state library administrative agencies to enable them to award subgrants to eligible local educational agencies for summer early reading programs held at schools with a summer lunch site.
The program is open to local educational agencies that include schools where at least 50% of the students in prekindergarten through grade 3 are (1) reading below grade level at grade 3, or (2) at risk of reading below grade level at grade 3.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 5318: Summer Meals and Learning Act of 2026. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-5318/
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