HR 6654 · 110th Congress 2007–2009, ended

Increased Student Achievement Through Increased Student Support Act

Introduced Jul 30, 2008 Originated House Sponsor Edolphus Towns D-NY

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Latest action · Jul 30, 2008 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedJul 30, 2008
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Increased Student Achievement Through Increased Student Support Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive, renewable, five-year grants to partnerships between low-income local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools offering graduate programs in school counseling, social work, or psychology to increase the number of program graduates employed by low-income LEAs.

Defines "low-income LEAs" as those that: (1) serve students at least 20% of which are from low-income families; (2) have ratios of school counselors, social workers, and psychologists to students that fall at least 10% below specified target ratios; and (3) have been identified as needing improvement or corrective action or include at least one school identified as needing improvement, corrective action, or restructuring under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

Allows the use of grant funds to: (1) provide program graduate students with field training at partnership LEA schools; (2) contribute to program graduates' salaries at such schools for up to three years after they graduate; (3) increase the number of school counselors, social workers, and psychologists per student in such schools; (4) enhance the capacity of partnership graduate schools to train such professionals; (5) develop course work designed to facilitate such graduates' service to low-income LEAs and at-risk students; and (6) provide tuition credits to such graduate students and student loan forgiveness to program graduates employed as school counselors, social workers, or psychologists by low-income LEAs for at least five consecutive years.

Directs the Secretary to establish a program providing student loan forgiveness to non-participants in this Act's grant program who have been employed for at least five consecutive years as school counselors, social workers, or psychologists by low-income LEAs.

Requires the Secretary to identify a formula for future use in designating regions as eligible for benefit programs because of having a shortage of such school personnel.

Cosponsors 50

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 30, 2008 to Sep 26, 2008; 40 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-FLAlcee L. HastingsOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-CABarbara LeeOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-MNBetty McCollumOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-OHBetty SuttonOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-NCBob EtheridgeOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-CABob FilnerOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-NCBrad MillerOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-FLCorrine BrownOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-ILDanny K. DavisOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-OHDennis J. KucinichOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-CAFortney Pete StarkOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-CAGeorge MillerOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-CAGrace F. NapolitanoOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-NYGregory W. MeeksOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-MAJames P. McGovernOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-ILJanice D. SchakowskyOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-WAJay InsleeOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-WAJim McDermottOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-CAJoe BacaOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-CTJoe CourtneyOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-PAJoe SestakOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-MIJohn Conyers, Jr.OriginalJul 30, 2008
D-GAJohn LewisOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-MNKeith EllisonOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-CALinda T. SánchezOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-CALucille Roybal-AllardOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-GUMadeleine Z. BordalloOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-HIMazie K. HironoOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-CAMichael M. HondaOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-NCMike McIntyreOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-ILPhil HareOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-AZRaúl M. GrijalvaOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-PARobert A. BradyOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-NJRush HoltOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-GASanford D. Bishop, Jr.OriginalJul 30, 2008
D-TXSheila Jackson LeeOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-TNSteve CohenOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-NYTimothy H. BishopOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-LAWilliam J. JeffersonOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-NYYvette D. ClarkeOriginalJul 30, 2008
D-NHCarol Shea-PorterSep 11, 2008
D-MAEdward J. MarkeySep 11, 2008
D-NYMaurice D. HincheySep 16, 2008
D-MSTravis ChildersSep 16, 2008
D-NCDavid E. PriceSep 18, 2008
D-OREarl BlumenauerSep 23, 2008
D-NJSteven R. RothmanSep 24, 2008
D-AZEd PastorSep 26, 2008
D-CAHoward L. BermanSep 26, 2008
D-TXSilvestre ReyesSep 26, 2008

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

ChamberCommitteeWhat it did
HouseEducation and Workforce Committee
Referred Jul 30, 2008

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jul 30, 2008Introduced in House
  2. Jul 30, 2008Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
S 3364Increased Student Achievement Through Increased Student Support ActRelated billJul 30, 2008

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced
To increase the recruitment and retention of school counselors, school social workers, and school psychologists by low-income local educational agencies.
Short Titles as Introduced
Increased Student Achievement Through Increased Student Support Act

Subjects

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Text 1

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  1. Jul 30, 2008Introduced in House

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