To amend the Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program to reduce the cost-sharing requirement for colleges and universities and to provide incentives for Noyce scholars to teach in high-needs schools.

Amends the National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2002 to eliminate the requirement that Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship recipients perform their teaching obligation in high-need local educational agencies (LEAs). (The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program provides grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) to recruit and train mathematics and science teachers for elementary and secondary schools.)

Reduces the teaching obligation of scholarship recipients by one year if they perform their obligation in high-need LEAs. Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish and maintain a central information clearinghouse on teaching opportunities in high-need LEAs.

Requires IHEs to provide, from nonfederal sources, an amount equal to 30% of their grant to carry out the program.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4977 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4977

   To amend the Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program to reduce the cost-
   sharing requirement for colleges and universities and to provide 
     incentives for Noyce scholars to teach in high-needs schools.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 25, 2010

 Mr. Mitchell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                  Committee on Science and Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program to reduce the cost-
   sharing requirement for colleges and universities and to provide 
     incentives for Noyce scholars to teach in high-needs schools.

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

SECTION 1. ROBERT NOYCE TEACHER SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM.

    Section 10 of the National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 
2002 (42 U.S.C. 1862n-1) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c)(4), by striking ``Service required 
        under this paragraph shall be performed in a high-need local 
        educational agency.'';
            (2) in subsection (c), by adding at the end a new paragraph 
        as follows:
            ``(5) Exception.--The period of service obligation under 
        paragraph (4) shall be reduced by 1 year for scholarship 
        recipients whose service is performed in a high-need local 
        educational agency. The Director shall establish and maintain a 
        central clearinghouse of information on teaching opportunities 
        available in high-need local educational agencies throughout 
        the United States, which shall be made available to individuals 
        having a service obligation under this section.''; and
            (3) by amending subsection (h), to read as follows:
    ``(h) Matching Requirement.--An institution of higher education 
receiving a grant under this section shall provide, from non-Federal 
sources, an amount equal to 30 percent of the amount of the grant 
(which may be provided in cash or in-kind) to carry out the activities 
supported by the grant.''.
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