STUDY OF CORRECTIONAL POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION.

SEC. 1112. STUDY OF CORRECTIONAL POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION.(a) Study Required.—The Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor and the Attorney General, shall—(1) conduct a longitudinal study to assess the effects of correctional postsecondary education that—(A) employs rigorous empirical methods that control for self-selection bias;(B) measures a range of outcomes, including those related to employment and earnings, recidivism, engaged citizenship, impact on families of the incarcerated, and impact on the culture of the correctional institution;(C) examines different delivery systems of postsecondary education, such as on-site and distance learning; and(D) includes a projected cost-benefit analysis of the Federal investment in terms of reduction of future offending, reduction of future prison costs (construction and operational), increased tax payments by formerly incarcerated individuals, a reduction of welfare and other social service costs for successful formerly incarcerated individuals, and increased costs from the employment of formerly incarcerated individuals; and(2) make specific recommendations to the authorizing committees and the relevant State agencies responsible for correctional education, such as the State superintendents of education and State secretaries of corrections, on best approaches to increase correctional education and its effectiveness.(b) Submission of Reports.—Not later than three years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Education shall submit an interim report on the progress of the study required by subsection (a)(1) to the authorizing committees. Not later than seven years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Education shall submit a final report, together with the recommendations required by subsection (a)(2), to the authorizing committees.