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No Cost Educational Resources Act
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No Cost Educational Resources Act

IntroducedDecember 12, 2025
Introduced9 months ago
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Why This Matters

The No Cost Educational Resources Act helps colleges create courses that use free digital materials for required readings. This can lower costs for students and improve access to education.

If you are a college student, this bill could mean lower costs for your required reading materials.
Who this affects
College students · Low-income students · Minority students
What changes is this bill making?
  1. 1This bill allows grants for colleges to create courses using free digital reading materials.
  2. 2It focuses on science, technology, engineering, and math courses only.
  3. 3Colleges must work with librarians and faculty to implement these courses.
  4. 4Grants will prioritize colleges with many low-income or minority students.
  5. 5The bill aims to make education more affordable by using publicly available resources.
Read the detailed summary

No Cost Educational Resources Act of 2025This bill authorizes the Institute of Museum and Library Services to award grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) for facilitating the adoption, adaption, and creation of open educational reading materials and establishing more open educational reading material courses. Open educational reading material refers to a free digital text that is publicly available to be downloaded and redistributed. Open educational reading material course refers to a science, technology, engineering, or math course offered by an IHE that uses only open educational reading materials as the form of the required readings for the course.

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