Affordable College Textbook Act
- Last Action
- 3/27/2023
Actions
- 2023-03-27Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S955-957)
- 2023-03-27Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2023-03-27 (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)
- Angus King (I-ME)
- Tina Smith (D-MN)
- Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ)
Subjects
- Books and print media
- Congressional oversight
- Digital media
- Education programs funding
- Government studies and investigations
- Higher education
- Teaching, teachers, curricula
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