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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4833 

To authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to local educational 

agencies to carry out teacher exchanges. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 11, 2010 

Mr. PIERLUISI (for himself, Mr. ANDREWS, Mr. BACA, Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. 

FARR, Mr. GRAYSON, Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. 

GUTIERREZ, Mr. HONDA, Ms. KOSMAS, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. REYES, 

Mr. RODRIGUEZ, and Mr. SIRES) introduced the following bill; which was 

referred to the Committee on Education and Labor 

A BILL 

To authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants 

to local educational agencies to carry out teacher exchanges. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. TEACHER EXCHANGE PROGRAM. 

4 (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 

5 ‘‘Teacher Exchange Act of 2010’’. 

6 (b) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Education 

7 may make grants to local educational agencies to carry 

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1 cy sends teachers to another local educational agency lo2 cated in a different geographic region for a school year. 

3 (c) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive a grant 

4 under this section, a local educational agency shall submit 

5 an application to the Secretary certifying that such agen6 cy— 

7 (1) has entered into a partnership with a receiv8 ing local educational agency that is located in a dif9 ferent geographic region, as determined by the Sec10 retary, or has actively sought such a partnership; 

11 and 

12 (2)(A) is a high-need local educational agency; 

13 or 

14 (B) has entered into a partnership described in 

15 paragraph (1) with a high-need local educational 

16 agency, or has actively sought such a partnership. 

17 (d) USE OF FUNDS.—The recipient of a grant under 

18 this section shall use the grant for each of the following 

19 purposes: 

20 (1) Carrying out a teacher exchange under 

21 which the recipient sends teachers employed by the 

22 recipient to a receiving local educational agency to 

23 teach or perform a similar function at such agency 

24 as such teachers had previously performed. 


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1 (2) Developing and implementing a plan, 

2 through the partnership described in subsection (b), 

3 to provide participating teachers with activities de4 signed to promote professional development, includ5 ing— 

6 (A) an orientation session or courses to 

7 prepare such teachers for— 

8 (i) the exchange experience; 

9 (ii) the community in which the re10 ceiving local educational agency is located 

11 and the schools in such agency; and 

12 (iii) the particular grade level and 

13 curriculum assigned to the participating 

14 teacher by the receiving local educational 

15 agency; 

16 (B) a mentoring program through which a 

17 participating teacher is paired with a mentor 

18 (who is not also a participating teacher) em19 ployed by the receiving local educational agency 

20 who teaches in the same grade level or subject 

21 area that the participating teacher has been as22 signed to teach under the exchange; 

23 (C) a forum for participating teachers, led 

24 by an administrator or teacher at the receiving 

25 local educational agency, to engage in ongoing 


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1 professional development focused on improving 

2 classroom instruction to result in improved stu3 dent outcomes, including reading educational 

4 research, reviewing student work, creating and 

5 reviewing formative and summative assess6 ments, analyzing data from student assess7 ments, and tracking student progress; and 

8 (D) content-specific programs designed to 

9 support participating teachers in teaching the 

10 specific curriculum in place at the receiving 

11 local education agency and at the grade level to 

12 which the participating teacher is assigned. 

13 (3) Reimbursing each participating teacher for 

14 travel expenses incurred by the participating teacher 

15 while traveling to and from the receiving local edu16 cational agency, not more than twice per calendar 

17 year, for the purpose of participating in a teacher 

18 exchange funded by a grant under this section. 

19 (4) Providing housing for participating teachers 

20 while participating in such an exchange, including 

21 cost of living increases as necessary to provide such 

22 housing. 

23 (5) Providing a living stipend to participating 

24 teachers that— 


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1 (A) is added to the regular salary of such 

2 teachers each pay period, for the duration of 

3 the exchange; and 

4 (B) includes an annual cost-of-living ad5 justment. 

6 (6) Reimbursing the receiving local educational 

7 agency for supplies or other incidental items pur8 chased for use by participating teachers during such 

9 an exchange. 

10 (e) RESTRICTION.—The recipient of a grant under 

11 this section may not use the grant to pay the regular sal12 ary of participating teachers during the period of an ex13 change funded by a grant under this section. 

14 (f) CONDITIONS.—As a condition of receiving a grant 

15 under this section, a grant recipient shall— 

16 (1) ensure that each participating teacher in an 

17 exchange funded under this section has at least 

18 three years of teaching experience prior to partici19 pating in such exchange; 

20 (2) certify that such participation shall not 

21 serve as grounds for the grant recipient terminating 

22 the employment of a participating teacher; 

23 (3) ensure by contract or agreement with each 

24 participating teacher that each teacher agrees to 

25 serve— 


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1 (A) in the receiving local educational agen2 cy for a school year; and 

3 (B) in the local educational agency that se4 lected such teacher for participation in the ex5 change for the duration of the two-year period 

6 following such participation unless the Sec7 retary, after determining that the performance 

8 of such service poses a significant hardship to 

9 the teacher, waives such condition; 

10 (4) certify that upon the failure of a partici11 pating teacher to satisfy a condition specified in 

12 paragraph (3), the grant recipient shall— 

13 (A) recover from such teacher the amount 

14 of the grant funds that have been remitted to 

15 or on behalf of such teacher on a pro-rata basis 

16 (as determined by the Secretary); and 

17 (B) return the funds recovered under sub18 paragraph (A) to the Secretary not later than 

19 60 days after the recovery of such funds; and 

20 (5) if the recipient has not entered into an 

21 agreement with a receiving local educational agency 

22 by the date that is 6 months after the date of the 

23 the receipt of the grant, return the grant to the Sec24 retary. 


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1 (g) SELECTION CRITERIA.—In awarding grants 

2 under this section, the Secretary of Education shall give 

3 priority to local educational agencies that— 

4 (1) have entered into partnerships with receiv5 ing local educational agencies before applying for a 

6 grant under this section; 

7 (2) the Secretary determines would be able to 

8 provide participating teachers with training or expe9 rience such teachers would not receive from teaching 

10 in the local educational agency where such teachers 

11 are employed, including immersion in a linguistically 

12 different culture; and 

13 (3) focus on instruction in science, math, 

14 English as a second language, special education, or 

15 other subject areas that have a high need for quali16 fied teachers, as determined by the Secretary. 

17 (h) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

18 (1) The term ‘‘local educational agency’’ has 

19 the meaning given such term in section 9101(26) of 

20 the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 

21 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801(26)). 

22 (2) The term ‘‘high-need local educational agen23 cy’’ means an agency as defined in section 2102(2) 

24 of the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 (20 

25 U.S.C. 6602(3)). 


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1 (3) The term ‘‘receiving local educational agen2 cy’’ means a local educational agency to which a 

3 participating teacher will be sent for the duration of 

4 the exchange funded by a grant under this section. 

5 SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

6 There is authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 

7 for each of fiscal years 2011 through 2016 to carry out 

8 this Act. 

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