PATHS to Tutor Act of 2025

Sponsor: Cory A. Booker (Democratic-NJ)

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Creates a grant program to bring high-quality tutoring to students in high-need schools.

This bill would create a new federal grant program to help bring high-quality tutoring to students in schools that need it most. It would set aside $500 million for partnerships between schools, teacher training programs, and community groups. These groups would offer tutoring, especially in hard-to-staff and high-need schools. Tutors could also earn national service educational awards.

What Would Change

Today, there is no specific federal grant program to fund partnerships that bring high-quality tutoring to schools that are hard to staff or have high needs. If this bill becomes law, it would set aside $500,000,000 to create a new grant program. This program would allow local partnerships of schools, teacher training programs, and community groups to apply for funds to provide tutoring, with at least 85 percent of the money directly supporting students, tutors, and mentors.

Key Provisions

Creates a competitive grant program to fund high-quality tutoring in hard-to-staff and high-need schools.
Authorizes setting aside $500,000,000 to pay for this grant program.
Requires at least 85 percent of the grant money to directly support students, tutors, and mentors, covering stipends, transportation, meals, and learning materials.
Lets local partnerships of schools, teacher training programs, and community groups apply for these grants.
Gives priority to grant applications that use college students in teacher training programs or students from Historically Black Colleges or minority-serving institutions as tutors.
Allows grant money to pay for tutor training, stipends, student transportation, meals, and learning supplies.

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PATHS to Tutor Act of 2025

What Would Change

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