Personnel Excellence for Students with Disabilities Act
Latest action · Mar 12, 2003 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3627-3631)
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 12, 2003
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Revises and renames provisions for State program improvement grants as State Personnel and Professional Development Grants. Directs the Secretary of Education to allot such grants to State educational agencies to assist them, and their local educational agencies (LEAs) and their partners (including institutions of higher education and other entities), to support and improve their systems of personnel preparation and professional development for SEs in order to improve results for children with disabilities.
Authorizes the Secretary to make competitive grant and contract awards to eligible entities (partnerships of LEAs and institutions of higher education with State-approved SE personnel programs, and additional entities) to develop professional development partnerships (PDPs) between such entities and elementary or secondary schools. Requires PDPs to use such grants to: (1) develop preservice teacher education for SEs; or (2) create or support professional development schools that provide specified services. Authorizes the Secretary to make competitive grant and contract awards to eligible entities (partnerships of LEAs and State-approved SE personnel preparation programs, and additional entities) to provide professional development, leadership training, and collaborative opportunities for general educators to ensure they have skills and knowledge to meet the needs of, and improve results for, children with disabilities.
Revises requirements: (1) for personnel preparation to improve services and results for children with disabilities; and (2) to benefit children with high-incidence disabilities to include those with emotional or behavioral disorders.
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 12, 2003 to Mar 31, 2003, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MA | Edward M. Kennedy | Original | Mar 12, 2003 |
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Mar 31, 2003 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 12, 2003Introduced in Senate
- Mar 12, 2003Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3627-3631)
- Mar 12, 2003Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3626-3627)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- Academic performance
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Curricula
- Disabled
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Educational accountability
- Educational planning
- Educational research
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary education
- English language
- Families
- Federal aid to education
- Government Operations and Politics
- Higher education
- Housing and Community Development
- Labor and Employment
- Mentoring
- Parent-school relationships
- Recruiting of employees
- Rural education
- Scholarships
- School administration
- School districts
- Secondary education
- Self-help devices for the disabled
- Special education
- Teacher education
- Teacher supply and demand
- Teachers
- Teaching
- Urban affairs
- Urban education
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