To expand eligibility for Pell grants to certain students who are pursuing a postbaccalaureate professional certification or licensing credential required for employment as a teacher.

Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow students who are pursuing a postbaccalaureate professional certification or licensing credential required for employment as a teacher to receive a Pell grant even if their institution of higher education (IHE) offers a baccalaureate degree in education, provided they do not live within 45 miles of an IHE that offers such a postbaccalaureate program but not a baccalaureate degree in education. (Currently, students are not eligible for Pell grants for such postbaccalaureate studies if their IHE offers a baccalaureate degree in education.)

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5760 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5760

   To expand eligibility for Pell grants to certain students who are 
 pursuing a postbaccalaureate professional certification or licensing 
            credential required for employment as a teacher.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 15, 2010

 Mr. Melancon introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
   To expand eligibility for Pell grants to certain students who are 
 pursuing a postbaccalaureate professional certification or licensing 
            credential required for employment as a teacher.

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

SECTION 1. PELL GRANT ELIGIBILITY FOR POSTBACCALAUREATE TEACHER 
              CERTIFICATION.

    Section 401(c)(4) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1070a(c)(4)) is amended by inserting before the period at the end the 
following: ``unless there is not an institution of higher education 
located within 45 miles of the principal place of residence of the 
student that offers such a postbaccalaureate program but does not offer 
a baccalaureate degree in education''.
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