Preparing, Recruiting, and Retaining Education Professionals Act of 2007
Latest action · Apr 26, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5202-5209)
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.
- IntroducedApr 26, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Preparing, Recruiting, and Retaining Education Professionals Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to reauthorize and revise title II part A requirements for teacher quality enhancement grants for states and partnerships (II-A).
Revises state grant, partnership grant, and recruitment grant requirements to include requirements relating to: (1) early childhood education; (2) exemplary, highly competent, and highly qualified teachers as these are defined under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; (3) teacher mentoring; (4) professional development; (5) parental involvement; and (6) high-need schools and local educational agencies. Revises requirements for peer review panel grant evaluation and for teacher preparation program accountability.
Requires states to submit teacher quality plans.
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to institutions of higher education that are II-A partner institutions to create Academies for Faculty Excellence.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 26, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Apr 26, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5202-5209)
- Apr 26, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5202)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- Academic performance
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Authorization
- Business and social problems
- Child development
- College costs
- College graduates
- Colleges
- Commerce
- Community and school
- Continuing education
- Curricula
- Department of Education
- Disabled
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Educational accountability
- Educational research
- Educational statistics
- Educational technology
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary education
- Families
- Federal aid to education
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Higher education
- Interstate relations
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Leadership
- Learning
- Licenses
- Mentoring
- Parent-school relationships
- Preschool education
- Rating of teachers
- Recruiting of employees
- Retired military personnel
- Scholarships
- School administration
- School districts
- School personnel
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Secondary education
- Social Welfare
- Special education
- State laws
- Teacher education
- Teacher salaries
- Teacher supply and demand
- Teachers
- Teaching
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 26, 2007Introduced in Senate
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