Increased Student Achievement Through Increased Student Support Act
Latest action · Mar 29, 2012 Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
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.
- IntroducedNov 14, 2011
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- 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, and from underrepresented backgrounds, 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 due to their having a shortage of such school personnel.
Cosponsors 25
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Nov 14, 2011 to Jun 29, 2012; 7 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Original | Nov 14, 2011 |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | Original | Nov 14, 2011 |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Original | Nov 14, 2011 |
| D-CO | Jared Polis | Original | Nov 14, 2011 |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Original | Nov 14, 2011 |
| D-CA | Linda T. Sánchez | Original | Nov 14, 2011 |
| D-NY | Maurice D. Hinchey | Original | Nov 14, 2011 |
| D-NC | David E. Price | Nov 15, 2011 | |
| D-CA | Fortney Pete Stark | Nov 15, 2011 | |
| D-NY | Gregory W. Meeks | Nov 15, 2011 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Nov 15, 2011 | |
| D-IL | Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. | Nov 15, 2011 | |
| D-FL | Corrine Brown | Nov 16, 2011 | |
| D-IN | André Carson | Nov 29, 2011 | |
| D-IA | David Loebsack | Nov 29, 2011 | |
| D-OH | Tim Ryan | Nov 29, 2011 | |
| D-CA | Bob Filner | Jan 24, 2012 | |
| D-NY | Carolyn McCarthy | Jan 24, 2012 | |
| D-CA | Zoe Lofgren | Feb 7, 2012 | |
| D-VA | Gerald E. Connolly | Mar 5, 2012 | |
| D-NY | William L. Owens | Mar 27, 2012 | |
| D-NJ | Rush Holt | Apr 17, 2012 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Apr 17, 2012 | |
| D-CA | Lucille Roybal-Allard | May 18, 2012 | |
| D-CA | Joe Baca | Jun 29, 2012 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Nov 14, 2011 |
| Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee | Referred Mar 29, 2012 | |
| Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee | Referred Mar 29, 2012 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 29, 2012Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
- Mar 29, 2012Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
- Nov 14, 2011Introduced in House
- Nov 14, 2011Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H7578.
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
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 14, 2011Introduced in House
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