State Tutoring Efforts and Legislation Database | National Student Support Accelerator

This database includes an initial set of statewide tutoring efforts and state tutoring legislation. It will be updated monthly. The intent is to include all statewide tutoring efforts and state legislation. We welcome submissions of efforts or legislation that we have omitted or corrections by completing this form.

State	Name of Legislation/Tutoring Effort	Does this effort include legislation?	Status	Date of Status	More Info
Alabama	House Bill 497 Required K-3 students who received a failing grade in a subject to receive tutoring during the first nine weeks of school. The bill also required additional accelerated instruction for students who… more	Yes	Failed	03/15/2022	Link
Arizona	ARS 15-241 Requires all students in a school assigned a letter grade of D or F to have access to tutoring. Tutoring can be provided by the school directly or the parent can choose from approved providers.… more				Link
Arkansas	SB 564: Arkansas Tutoring Corps Act Establishes a statewide Arkansas Tutoring Corps (with a focus on rural areas), to address interrupted learning as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. … more	Yes	Passed	04/26/2021	Link
California	SB-723 Pupil instruction: tutoring program: learning loss mitigation Creates the California Leadership, Excellence, Academic, Diversity, and Service-Learning (LEADS) Tutoring Program to provide both in-person and online tutoring to rectify learning loss. Each county… more	Yes	Held in Committee and under submission	05/20/2021	Link
California	SB-129 Budget Act of 2021 Includes funding for the California for All College Corps which provides undergraduate students at 46 colleges and universities across California the opportunity to earn $10,000 for committing to… more	Yes	Signed by Governor	07/12/2021	Link
Colorado	Learning League Program Funded through private philanthropy (Gary Community Ventures), provides trained and supervised tutors to work in CO schools in elementary literacy and middle grades math.	No	N/A	N/A	Link
Colorado	HB21-1234 Supplemental Education High-impact Tutoring Programs Creates the Colorado high-impact tutoring program to provide grant funding to local education providers including school districts and charter schools and others, to create high-impact tutoring… more	Yes	Signed by Governor	06/16/2021	Link
Colorado	Colorado High-Impact Tutoring Program Creates the Colorado high-impact tutoring program to provide grant funding to local education providers including school districts, charter schools, and others prioritizing rural, low-income or… more	Yes	Signed by Governor	06/16/2021	Link
Colorado	Colorado High-Impact Tutoring Program Creates the Colorado high-impact tutoring program to provide grant funding to local education providers including school districts, charter schools, and others prioritizing rural, low-income or… more	Yes	Signed by Gov.	06/16/2021	Link
Connecticut	An Act Addressing Issues Created By The COVID-19 Pandemic On Public Education in Connecticut Requires analysis of state-wide mastery examination, results to measure the severity of student disengagement in public schools to guide development of a variety of student disengagement mitigation… more	Yes	Favorable Change of Reference, Senate to Committee on Appropriations	04/05/2021	Link
Delaware	Delaware Strategy to Accelerate Learning Requires school districts to (1) adopt high quality and consistent instruction materials (2) provide school leaders and teachers professional learning to provide Tier 1 education to students and… more	No	N/A	N/A	Link
Florida	CS/HB 7011 — Student Literacy Among many things, includes provision for high school juniors and seniors to satisfy community service requirements by providing 75 verified tutoring hours to students with a substantial deficiency… more	Yes	Signed by Governor	07/01/2021	Link
Georgia	$47 million Governors Emergency Education Relief Fund (GEER II) Funds $47 million in emergency assistance to address the disruptions and challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes a $1.3 million allocation for the teacher pipeline of which $789,… more	No	Effective for the 2022-23 school year		Link
Idaho	$50 Million “Empowering Parents” Grant Provides Idaho caregivers with children in grades K-12 with educational grants of up to $1,000 per student, per year, and up to $3,000 per household. Grants are funded through the $50 million “… more	Yes	Passed	07/01/2022	Link
Illinois	Illinois Tutoring Initiative Creates a statewide tutoring initiative targeting PK-12 students who are in districts or communities with limited capacity or resources to deliver high-quality tutoring programs through Illinois… more	No	N/A	N/A	Link
Indiana	House Bill 1252 Commits up to $15M in federal emergency funding to pay for tutoring for children who are struggling in math and reading. The initiative was funded in response to the learning loss that resulted from… more	Yes	Proposed	04/12/2022	Link
Iowa	Senate Bill: SB545 Requires The Iowa Department of Education to form a learning recovery task force to evaluate the degree of learning loss experienced by students due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The task force is… more	Yes	Sent to the Senate Subcommittee Education	01/12/2022	Link
Louisiana	Accelerate Provides high-quality, open access math and literacy tutoring lessons aligned with state standards. Lessons focus on acceleration rather than remediation. The Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE… more	No	N/A	N/A	Link
Maryland	“Kirwan 2.0,” or Senate Bill 965/House Bill 1372 Requires the original K-3 requirement of Transitional Supplemental Instruction for Struggling Learners program to add additional components: 1) funding for one-on-one and small-group instruction for… more	Yes	Passed into law	04/09/2021	Link
Maryland	Maryland Leads Supports Local Education Agencies (LEAs) with federal funding to address COVID-19 pandemic learning loss, opportunity and achievement gaps, and need of targeted support for historically underserved… more	No	N/A	02/01/2022	Link
Massachusetts	$60M Funding for Schools and Community Partners Provides $60M in state and federal funding to expand access to summer learning programs and recreational activities. Out of the $60M, $2M will be used to fund early literacy tutoring grants for… more	No	Passed and effective 2022-2023 school year		Link
Michigan	Tutoring Dollars for Kids (SB 925) Provides Michigan families with up to $1500 in Learning Loss Grants to be used on tutoring, summer courses, and certain educational supplies. Low-income students and families who have been most… more	Yes	Senate Bill Introduced	03/09/2022	Link
Michigan	Governor's $280M Tutoring Investment Proposal Proposes a $280 million spending investment to vet and pay tutors in an effort to help Michigan students recover from pandemic learning loss. The Governor’s proposal, which requires approval from… more		Proposed	05/23/2022	Link
Minnesota	Bill HF1064 Requires many efforts to combat COVID-19 impact on education including funding for community partnerships to provide tutoring during the summer of 2021.	Yes	Passed into law	03/23/2021	Link
Mississippi	Mississippi Acceleration Provides tutoring for 1,000 students in grades K-5 in literacy with a focus on relationship-development in its Pilot Program. Tutors are college students and funding is from GEER funds. Tutoring is 1… more	No	N/A	N/A	Link
Missouri	House Bill 3015: Close the Gap Program Includes a plan to set aside $75 million which would fund the Close the Gap program. The Close the Gap program provides $1500 to Missouri families to fund educational expenses. The $1500 grant funds… more	Yes	Approved by Governor	05/13/2022	Link
New Hampshire	YES! Scholarship Program Provides $1,000 tutoring scholarships for students negatively iimpacted by the pandemic. Funded through $2.3 million from the Governor's Emergency Education Relief Fund, the scholarships can be… more	No	N/A		Link
New Jersey	NJ Summer Tutoring Corps Provided tutoring to 2,000 students in the summer of 2021 and is expanding to 42 sites in fall of 2021. Launched by The College of New Jersey’s School of Education, and paid for by he New Jersey… more	No	N/A	N/A	Link
New Mexico	New Mexico Educator Fellows Program Addresses the educator shortage and the need for small group tutoring by funding districts and charter schools to hire Educator Fellows who will be provided supports to become a teacher to provide… more	No	N/A	N/A	Link
New Mexico	Multi-Layered System of Supports Encourages districts to include tutoring in the implementation of a new Multi-Layered System of Supports (MLSS) to ensure it’s integrated into districts’ larger acceleration strategies. New Mexico… more	No	N/A	11/08/2021	Link
North Carolina	SB 387 Excellent Public Schools Act of 2021 Revises the Read to Achieve Program in many ways, one of which is including tutoring as part of the definition of literacy interventions.	Yes	Signed by Governor	04/09/2021	Link
North Carolina	NC State Plan for ARP Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund Includes $30,000,000 for high-impact tutoring statewide.	No	N/A	N/A	Link
North Carolina	North Carolina Education Corps Partners with local schools to recruit, educate, and activate corps members to support students and accelerate learning through tutoring in NC's neediest districts. Corps members are paid a living… more	No	N/A	N/A	Link
Ohio	Statewide Mathematics and Literacy Tutoring Grant Awarded $14M in grants to Ohio colleges and universities planning to create or expand mathematics and literacy tutoring programs for Ohio’s K-12 students in one-on-one or small-group settings.The… more	No	Grants Awarded	05/01/2022	Link
Ohio	House Bill 583 Increases substitute teacher recruitment efforts, expands Ohio’s EdChoice program which provides families with vouchers to pay for private school tuition and requires tutoring programs in public and… more	No	Awaiting Governor’s signature	05/02/2022	Link
Oklahoma	Oklahoma State Plan for the ARP Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund Creates a Math Tutoring Corps in partnership with OK colleges and universities to address middle and high school student learning disruption. Specifically, Algebra I tutoring for up to 1,500 grade 7-… more	No	N/A	N/A	Link
Oklahoma	Oklahoma State Plan for the ARP Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund Includes the development of a Math Tutoring Corps in partnership with… more	No	N/A	N/A	Link
South Dakota	Senate Bill 210 Provides families in South Dakota with an educational savings account (ESA). The bill requires The Department of Education to create a savings account for students who withdrew from public schools… more	Yes	Withdrawn at the Request of the Prime Sponsor	02/03/2022	Link
South Dakota	Dakota Dreams Online Tutoring Program Provides free online tutoring for K-12 students in South Dakota in English, math, science and social studies. Sessions are taught by university students in the School of Education at Northern State… more	No	Passed into law	01/22/2021	Link
Tennessee	Tennessee Learning Loss Remediation and Student Acceleration Act Creates TN Accelerating Literacy and Learning Corps, a matching grant opportunity to empower districts to implement or strengthen tutoring supports for students in low ratios and at a high dosage… more	Yes	Passed into law	01/22/2021	Link
Texas	HB 4545 Requires an accelerated learning committee to develop an IEP for every student who does not pass pass the STAAR test in grade 3, 5, or 8 in math or reading. Also, requires the assignment of a… more	Yes	Passed into law	Effective Date June	Link
Washington, DC	OSSE High-Impact Tutoring Strategy Requires all DCPS schools to implement high-impact tutoring for students in need, reaching approximately 10% of all students.	No	N/A	N/A	Link