Empower Charter School Educators to Lead Act

S 3072 (Empower Charter School Educators to Lead Act) creates new pre-charter planning subgrants to support educator-led teams developing new public charter schools. It provides up to $100,000 per prospective applicant to teams led by educators with at least 4.5 years of school-based experience (including teaching or after-school programs) who have drafted a community need assessment for their proposed school. The bill reserves 5% of certain charter school funds for these subgrants, requiring states to administer them through entities verifying educator leadership and community need alignment. This directly affects new charter school developers and state education agencies managing grant allocations under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.