Affordable College Textbook Act
- Last Action
- 4/4/2019
Actions
- 2019-04-04Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
- 2019-04-04Introduced in House
- 2019-04-04Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2019-04-04 (00)
Affordable College Textbook Act
This bill directs the Department of Education to make grants to institutions of higher education or states to support projects that expand the use of open textbooks in order to achieve savings for students while maintaining or improving instruction and student learning outcomes. An open textbook is an educational resource that either resides in the public domain or has been released under an intellectual license that permits its free use, reuse, modification, and sharing with others.
Cosponsors (3)
- PETER DEFAZIO (D-OR)
- ZOE LOFGREN (D-CA)
- Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA)
Subjects
- Academic performance and assessments
- Books and print media
- Congressional oversight
- Disability and paralysis
- Education programs funding
- Educational technology and distance education
- Government studies and investigations
- Higher education
- Inflation and prices
- Intellectual property
- Interest, dividends, interest rates
- Licensing and registrations
- Retail and wholesale trades
- School administration
- Student aid and college costs
- Teaching, teachers, curricula
Sourced from Congress.gov (public domain).
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