Character Development Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Character Development Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award: (1) mentor program grants to eligible local educational agencies to establish mentoring programs designed to link individual at-risk youth with responsible, individual adults who serve as mentors; and (2) implementation and evaluation grants to national organizations or agencies serving youth to conduct a multisite demonstration project, involving five to ten project sites, develop and evaluate screening standards for school-linked mentoring programs, and develop and evaluate volunteer recruitment activities for school-linked mentoring programs. Sets forth permitted and prohibited uses of grant funds awarded under this Act. Directs the Secretary to develop and distribute to eligible local educational agencies receiving a mentor program grant specific model guidelines for the screening of mentors. Sets forth requirements for grant applications, program evaluations and reports by the Comptroller General, and reports by grant recipients. Authorizes appropriations for Mentoring Program Grants and Implementation and Evaluation Grants.…