‘‘(iii) if the individual intends to teach
at the secondary school level, shall possess
a bachelor’s degree in each subject area in
which the individual plans to provide in-
struction, or a closely related field.
‘‘(2) LENGTH OF COMMITMENT.—All potential
collaborative participants shall be required, as a con-
dition on receipt of financial assistance from a col-
laborative under subsection (b), to make a 3-year
commitment to teach in eligible schools under the ju-
risdiction of the local educational agency or agencies
that established the collaborative.
‘‘(d) PROVISIONS
RELATING
TO
LOCAL
EDU-
CATIONAL AGENCIES.—In order for a collaborative to use
a grant under this section for the benefit of a local edu-
cational agency establishing the collaborative, and for the
local educational agency to employ a teacher who is a col-
laborative participant, the local educational agency shall
provide to the Secretary assurances that—
‘‘(1) the local educational agency has a rate of
employment of teachers who are not fully qualified,
teacher vacancies, teacher turnover, or use of sub-
stitutes that exceeds the State average;
‘‘(2) no collaborative participant will be given a
teaching assignment in any school that is not an eli-
gible school;
‘‘(3) no collaborative participant will be given a
teaching assignment for which he or she is not fully
qualified;
‘‘(4) no collaborative participant will be asked
to teach, during the member’s first 3 years of teach-
ing, in a school in corrective action, as described in
section 1116(c)(5) of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6317(c)(5));
‘‘(5) all collaborative participants will receive
high intensity, sustained, high quality professional
development, including mentoring, throughout the
participant’s first year of teaching in an eligible
school;
‘‘(6) all collaborative participants who success-
fully complete their first year of teaching will com-
plete, in their second and third year of teaching, a
professional development course based on an evalua-
tion that the participant receives from the collabo-
rative at the end of their first year of teaching; and
‘‘(7) all collaborative participants who success-
fully complete their first year of teaching and are
given a positive evaluation and recommendation by
their principal and mentor will be offered an exten-
sion of employment by the local educational agency,
barring exceptional circumstances.
‘‘(e) REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO TEACHER LICEN-
SURE OR CERTIFICATION.—
‘‘(1) INITIAL TEACHER LICENSURE OR CERTIFI-
CATION.—In order for a collaborative to receive a
grant under this section, the State agency charged
with teacher licensure or certification shall provide
to the Secretary an assurance that it is authorized
to, and shall, grant full and unrestricted first-year
teacher certification or licensure to all collaborative
participants who—
‘‘(A) successfully complete the pre-service
training program for collaborative participants
described in subsection (b)(1)(A); and
‘‘(B) pass all applicable State and local li-
censing examinations for first-year teachers.
‘‘(2) LICENSE OR CERTIFICATE RENEWAL.—In
order for a collaborative to receive a grant under
this section, the State agency charged with teacher
licensure or certification shall provide to the Sec-
retary an assurance that it is authorized to, and
shall, renew a first-year license or certificate granted
to a collaborative participant only if, at the end of
the participant’s first year of teaching, the partici-
pant receives a positive evaluation from the local
educational agency or agencies establishing the col-
laborative.
‘‘(f) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section:
‘‘(1) 
COLLABORATIVE.—The 
term 
‘collabo-
rative’ means a partnership established in accord-
ance with the requirements of subsection (a)(3).
‘‘(2) COLLABORATIVE PARTICIPANT.—The term
‘collaborative participant’ means an individual who
is a trainee or teacher and is a recipient of financial
assistance, pre-service training, professional develop-
ment, or mentoring services provided by a collabo-
rative under this section.
‘‘(3) ELIGIBLE
SCHOOL.—The term ‘eligible
school’ means an elementary or secondary school in
which at least 35 percent of the students qualify for
free or reduced price meals pursuant to the National
School Lunch Act.
‘‘(4) FULLY
QUALIFIED.—The term ‘fully
qualified’—
‘‘(A) when used with respect to a public el-
ementary or secondary school teacher (other
than a teacher teaching in a public charter
school), means that the teacher has obtained
State certification as a teacher (including cer-
tification obtained through alternative routes to
certification) or passed the State teacher licens-
ing exam and holds a license to teach in such
State; and
‘‘(B) when used with respect to —
‘‘(i) an elementary school teacher,
means that the teacher holds a bachelor’s
degree and demonstrates knowledge and
teaching skills in reading, writing, mathe-
matics, science, and other areas of the ele-
mentary school curriculum; or
‘‘(ii) a middle or secondary school
teacher, means that the teacher holds a
bachelor’s degree and demonstrates a high
level of competency in all subject areas in
which he or she teaches through—
‘‘(I) a high level of performance
on a rigorous State or local academic
subject areas test; or
‘‘(II) completion of an academic
major in each of the subject areas in
which he or she provides instruction.
‘‘(5) 
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT.—The
term ‘professional development’ means sustained and
intensive activities that improve teachers’ content
knowledge and teaching skills and that—
‘‘(A) enhance the ability of teachers to help
all students, including females, minorities, chil-
dren with disabilities, children with limited
English proficiency and economically disadvan-
taged children, reach high State and local con-
tent and student performance standards;
‘‘(B) advance teacher understanding of one
or more of the core academic subject areas and
effective instructional strategies for improving
student achievement in those areas, including
technology;
‘‘(C) are directly related to the subject
area in which the teacher provides instruction;
‘‘(D) are of sufficient duration to have a
positive and lasting impact on classroom in-
struction;
‘‘(E) are an integral part of broader school
and district-wide plans for raising student
achievement to State and local standards;
‘‘(F) are aligned with State content and
student performance standards;
‘‘(G) are based on the best available re-
search on teaching and learning;
‘‘(H) include professional development ac-
tivities that involve collaborative groups of
teachers and administrators from the same
school or district, institutions of higher edu-
cation, and, to the greatest extent possible, in-
clude follow-up and school-based support such
as coaching or study groups; and
‘‘(I) as a whole, are regularly evaluated for
their impact on increased teacher effectiveness
and improved student achievement, with the
findings of such evaluations used to improve the
quality of professional development.’’.
SEC. 4. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS; ACCOUNTABILITY
AND EVALUATION.
(a) ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS.—Section 205 of
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1025) is
amended—
(1) in subsection (a)(1), by adding at the end
the following:
‘‘(C) COLLABORATIVES.—Grants awarded
to collaboratives under section 203A shall be
awarded for a period of 5 years.’’;
(2) in subsection (b)(2)—
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking the
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(B) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(C) with respect to grants under section
203A, give priority to applications from
collaboratives from States that have developed,
or are in the process of developing, a system of
incentives to encourage highly effective teachers
and individuals likely to become highly effective
teachers to teach in eligible schools.’’;
(3) in subsection (b)(3), by inserting after the
first sentence the following: ‘‘To the extent prac-
ticable, the Secretary shall make awards under sec-
tion 203A that support programs in different geo-
graphic regions of the United States and areas with
varying population densities.’’; and
(4) in subsection (c), by adding at the end the
following:
‘‘(3) COLLABORATIVE
GRANTS.—If a collabo-
rative receives a grant under section 203A, the State
in which the collaborative is established and located
shall provide, from non-Federal sources (in cash or
in kind), an amount equal to the following percent-
ages of the grant amount to carry out the activities
supported by the grant:
‘‘(A) In the first year of the grant, 25 per-
cent.
‘‘(B) In the second year of the grant, 30
percent.
‘‘(C) In the third year of the grant, 35
percent.
‘‘(D) In the fourth year of the grant, 40
percent.
‘‘(E) In the fifth year of the grant, 50 per-
cent.’’.
(b) ACCOUNTABILITY
AND EVALUATION.—Section
206 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
1026) is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsection (e) as sub-
section (f); and
(2) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(e) COLLABORATIVE ACCOUNTABILITY AND PRO-
GRAM EVALUATION.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each collaborative receiv-
ing funds under section 203A shall publicly report,
within 4 weeks of receipt of such results, the per-
centage of its trainees who pass all applicable State
and local initial teacher licensure or certification ex-
aminations. Such reporting shall prominently feature
such percentages for the most recent administration
of such examinations on all promotional and recruit-
ment material used by the collaborative.
‘‘(2) REPORTS ON PASS RATES.—Each collabo-
rative receiving funds under section 203A annually
shall report to the Secretary the percentage of its
trainees who pass all applicable State and local ini-
tial teacher licensure or certification examinations.
Such reports shall include any additional informa-
tion that the Secretary may deem necessary and ap-
propriate to ensure the quality and integrity of that
collaborative’s program, or all programs under this
section in general.
‘‘(3) INELIGIBILITY FOR FUNDS.—With respect
to any year, any collaborative whose training grad-
uates fail to pass any applicable State or local initial
teacher licensing or certification examination at a
rate of 90 percent or higher shall be ineligible for re-
ceipt of funds under section 203A in the succeeding
year.
‘‘(4) REVIEW.—
‘‘(A) FUNDS RESERVED FOR CERTAIN AC-
TIVITIES.—The Secretary shall reserve 1⁄2 of 1
percent of the funds made available to carry out
section 203A—
‘‘(i) to conduct a comprehensive eval-
uation of the program under such section
not later than 3 years after the date of the
enactment of the Alternative Path to
Teaching Act;
‘‘(ii) to disseminate information to
qualified local educational agencies nation-
ally about grant opportunities under such
section;
‘‘(iii) to establish a web page service
to share best practices and allow for active
exchange between grantees and between
grantees and the Secretary; and
‘‘(iv) to evaluate applications from,
and award grants to, collaboratives to en-
able such collaboratives to carry out func-
tions described in such section.
‘‘(B) MATTERS
COVERED
BY
EVALUA-
TION.—The evaluation described in subpara-
graph (A)(i) shall assess—
‘‘(i) the effectiveness of individual pro-
grams in recruiting large numbers of high-
ly qualified applicants from diverse back-
grounds;
‘‘(ii) the qualifications of teachers re-
cruited and trained through the program
as compared to other teachers in partici-
pating local educational agencies; and
‘‘(iii) the retention rates of collabo-
rative participants as compared to the re-
tention rates of other new teachers for par-
ticipating local educational agencies.’’.
SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Section 210 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20
U.S.C. 1030) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘section 203;’’
and inserting ‘‘sections 203 and 203A;’’;
(2) by inserting ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—’’ before
‘‘There are’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(b) ALLOCATION BETWEEN PARTNERSHIP
AND
COLLABORATIVE GRANTS.—Of the amount made available
for any fiscal year under subsection (a)(2), 70 percent
shall be available for grants under section 203 and 30 per-
cent shall be available for grants under section 203A.’’.
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