General provisions

(a) Creation of new office at the Department of Education There is established in the Department of Education, an Office of Sustainable Schools, which shall— (1) administer the resource block grant program under section 103 and the educational equity grant program under section 104; and (2) in close collaboration with the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Agriculture, coordinate the activities of those grant programs with— (A) the activities of the climate capital facilities grant program under section 102, administered by the Secretary of Energy; and (B) the activities of the climate change resiliency program under title II. (b) Resource allocation plan Each applicant for a grant under this title shall submit with their application a resource allocation plan, which shall include— (1) a detailed explanation of how the grant funds will be spent; and (2) an implementation strategy, which shall be developed after a community-engaged planning process, with representation from educators, principals, administrators, students, parents, school boards, caregivers, Indian Tribes (where applicable), and community organizations that have documented experience as local providers and partners, and which shall include— (A) an outline of the applicant's goals to address environmental, economic, and educational equity in the projects and activities supported by the grant funds; (B) annual benchmarks to measure the applicant's progress toward meeting those goals; (C) a plan to ensure that, to the greatest extent practicable, not less than 30 percent of all jobs funded by the grant will be— (i) filled by individuals hired through an equitable local community-based hiring process, especially individuals who reside in the same catchment area as students attending the school in which those individuals will work, or individuals who previously attended the school in which those individuals will work; or (ii) filled by individuals who reside in a ZIP Code served by the local educational agency receiving the grant or in a neighboring ZIP Code; (D) as applicable, a commitment to local hiring from businesses, nonprofit organizations, and cooperatives (including worker cooperatives) in a manner that contributes to the implementation strategy, advances the economic and social empowerment of traditionally disadvantaged individuals and communities (including low-income and low-wealth individuals and communities), and creates opportunities for— (i) people of color; (ii) immigrants, regardless of immigrant status; (iii) formerly incarcerated individuals; (iv) women; (v) LGBTQIAP+ individuals; (vi) individuals with disabilities or chronic illness; (vii) young or elderly individuals; (viii) young adults exiting the foster care system; and (ix) unhoused individuals; and (E) a plan to ensure the greatest practicable number of training opportunities within schools benefitting from grant funds under this Act. (c) Documentation (1) In General Each recipient of a grant under this title shall document the recipient's progress toward meeting the resource allocation plan goals over the course of the grant period on a public digitized platform, which may be an existing public dashboard, data center, or information hub of a public website. (2) Requirements A grant recipient shall establish and maintain a public digitized platform for the purposes described in this subsection if one has not already been established on the date of the grant award. (3) Accessible data Each recipient of a grant under this title shall ensure that data described in this subsection and presented on the public digitized platform— (A) is accessible to individuals in multiple languages (as applicable to the relevant community); (B) is accessible to individuals with different literacy levels; (C) complies with the most recent Web Content Accessibility Guidelines of the Web Accessibility Initiative, or successor guidelines; and (D) is standardized. (d) Bureau of Indian Education (1) In general The Secretary of Education and the Secretary of Energy, as applicable, in conjunction with the Secretary of the Interior, shall reserve a sufficient amount of grant funding and additional administrative expenses, for each grant program authorized under this title, for the Bureau of Indian Education to fully carry out the applicable grant activities at all BIE schools and schools funded by BIE, which shall include providing any necessary technical assistance to assist a BIE school or school funded by BIE in creating a resource allocation plan or meeting other grant requirements in collaboration with the applicable Indian Tribe and community members. (2) Ensuring sovereignty and self-determination The Secretary of Education, the Secretary of Energy, and the Secretary of the Interior shall ensure that the administration of funds reserved under paragraph (1) and provision of technical assistance under paragraph (1) is carried out in accordance with principles of Indian Tribal sovereignty and self-determination.