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Strength in Diversity Act of 2020
This bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to award grants to specified educational agencies (e.g., local educational agencies) to develop or implement plans to improve diversity and reduce or eliminate racial or socioeconomic isolation in publicly funded early childhood education programs, public elementary schools, or public secondary schools.
Specifically, ED may award planning and implementation grants to specified educational agencies. A recipient of a planning grant must use the grant to support students through certain activities, such as developing options to improve diversity in schools (e.g., weighted lotteries or school boundary redesign).
Further, a recipient of an implementation grant must implement a high-quality plan to support students. This plan must, among other things, include a comprehensive set of strategies that are designed to improve academic outcomes for all students, particularly students of color and low-income students. A grant recipient may also use the grant for certain activities, such as recruiting additional teachers and staff, investing in specialized academic programs, and developing innovative and equitable school assignment plans.
Additionally, ED may carry out national activities under the grant program, such as developing best practices for grant recipients and other experts in school diversity.
The bill also requires ED to establish performance measures for the program and its related activities.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 2639 as passed House on Sep 15, 2020. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Sep 15, 2020Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveSep 15, 2020
House Sep 15, 2020 · the primary vote
Strength in Diversity Act
Passed
248 Yea 167 Nay 15 not voting
Party-line vote 20 of 415 voting members broke with their own party: 20 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
430 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 2639 and vote against it. 2 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 2639 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
4 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.