STRONG Act of 2021

Supporting Teachers with Residency Opportunities and New Grants Act of 2021 or the STRONG Act of 2021

This bill reauthorizes through FY2024 the Teacher Quality Partnership program and otherwise revises the program to allow certain undergraduate students with an academic major related to teaching to enter into teaching residency programs. (Currently, only recent graduates and certain mid-career professionals may participate in these programs.) In addition, the bill allows undergraduate students who enter into such a program to participate in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5242 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5242

  To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow certain students 
 enrolled in an institution of higher education to apply for teaching 
              residency programs, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 10, 2021

 Mrs. Trahan (for herself, Mrs. Bustos, and Mrs. Hayes) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                                 Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow certain students 
 enrolled in an institution of higher education to apply for teaching 
              residency programs, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Supporting Teachers with Residency 
Opportunities and New Grants Act of 2021'' or the ``STRONG Act of 
2021''.

SEC. 2. TEACHER RESIDENCY PROGRAMS.

    (a) Partnership Grants.--Section 202(e)(2)(B)(i)(I) of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1022a(e)(2)(B)(i)(I)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``education or'' and inserting 
        ``education,''; and
            (2) by striking ``accomplishment'' and inserting 
        ``accomplishment, or enrolled in a pre-baccalaureate program at 
        a four-year institution of higher education with an academic 
        major relating to teaching''.
    (b) Public Service Loan Forgiveness.--Section 455(m)(3)(B) of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087e(m)(3)(B)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (i), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in clause (ii), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iii) participating, as a pre-
                        baccalaureate student, in a teacher residency 
                        program under section 202 of this Act.''.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 209 of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1022h) is amended by striking 
``$300,000,000'' and all that follows and inserting ``$600,000,000 for 
fiscal years 2022 through 2024 and such sums as may be necessary for 
each succeeding fiscal year.''.
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