Troops to Teachers Improvement Act of 2006

Troops to Teachers Improvement Act of 2006 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 with respect to the Troops-to-Teachers program (which provides armed forces veterans with teacher certification stipends in exchange for three years of service in a high-need local educational agency (LEA) or public charter school).

Allows a program participant, if a high-need LEA or public charter school is not located within 50 miles of his or her residence, to teach within an LEA or at a public charter school: (1) experiencing a shortage of highly qualified teachers, especially in science, mathematics, special education, or vocational or technical education; or (2) receiving grant funds because of concentrations of children from low-income families.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6334 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6334

 To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ensure 
  that participants in the Troops to Teachers program may teach at a 
                       range of eligible schools.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 15, 2006

 Mr. Petri (for himself and Ms. Matsui) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and 
  in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL



 To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ensure 
  that participants in the Troops to Teachers program may teach at a 
                       range of eligible schools.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Troops to Teachers Improvement Act 
of 2006''.

SEC. 2. PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE UNDER TROOPS 
              TO TEACHERS PROGRAM.

    Section 2304 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
is amended in subsection (a)(1)(B) by striking ``for not less than 3 
school years'' and all that follows through the period at the end and 
inserting the following: ``for not less than 3 school years, to begin 
the school year after obtaining that certification or licensing, with a 
high-need local educational agency or public charter school, as such 
terms are defined in section 2101 or, if there is no high-need local 
educational agency or public charter school for which the member is 
qualified to teach within a 50-mile radius of the member's residence, 
then under circumstances covered by section 2302(b)(2).''.
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