H.B. 413 Summary

• Establishes the Education Innovation Grants Program within the Department of Education to support school-level innovation in public schools aligned with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

• Authorizes the Board of Education to adopt guiding principles and measures of success for the grants program and requires the Department to develop a request for proposals with submission and award deadlines.

• Creates the Education Innovation Grants Special Fund to receive legislative appropriations and investment earnings for awarding grants to department schools or programs with potential for knowledge transfer within the public school system.

• Requires annual reporting to the legislature beginning in 2021 on grant recipients, grant amounts, descriptions of supported innovations, and applicable measures of success.

• Appropriates funds from general revenues to the special fund and from the special fund to the education innovation grants program for fiscal years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 (amounts not specified in bill).