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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3180 
To establish the National Advisory Committee on Rural Education in the 
Department of Education. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 10, 2009 
Mr. PERRIELLO introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and Labor 
A BILL 
To establish the National Advisory Committee on Rural 
Education in the Department of Education. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘SCORE (Strength-
ening Community Opportunities through Rural Edu-
cation) Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT. 
There is established in the Department of Education 
an advisory committee to be known as the ‘‘National Advi-
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sory Committee on Rural Education’’ (hereinafter in this 
Act referred to as the ‘‘Advisory Committee’’). 
SEC. 3. FUNCTIONS. 
The Advisory Committee shall study the unique chal-
lenges faced by rural public school systems in providing 
elementary and secondary education, including whether 
and how any of the following factors affect those unique 
challenges: 
(1) Difficulty in attracting and retaining new 
teachers. 
(2) Deficient or inadequate school facilities and 
infrastructure. 
(3) Deficient or inadequate transportation in-
frastructure. 
(4) Difficulty in effectively incorporating infor-
mation technology. 
(5) Decreasing number of recent postsecondary 
graduates returning to rural communities. 
(6) Limited and varied levels of funding. 
SEC. 4. COMPOSITION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Advisory Committee shall be 
composed of 21 members who shall serve for the life of 
the Advisory Committee. 
(b) CHAIR.—The Secretary of Education (hereinafter 
in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) or the designee 
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of the Secretary shall be a member of the Advisory Com-
mittee and shall serve as the chair of the Advisory Com-
mittee. 
(c) SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE.—The Secretary of 
Agriculture or the designee of the Secretary of Agriculture 
shall be a member of the Advisory Committee. 
(d) APPOINTED MEMBERS.— 
(1) The chair shall appoint the other 19 mem-
bers in a manner that ensures that the membership 
of the Advisory Committee is fairly balanced in 
terms of the points of view represented and the 
functions to be performed by the Advisory Com-
mittee. 
(2) Such members shall be selected from among 
experts on rural public school systems. For the pur-
poses of this paragraph, the term ‘‘experts on rural 
public school systems’’ means any of the following: 
(A) Teachers from such school systems. 
(B) Administrators from such school sys-
tems. 
(C) Members of school boards for such 
school systems. 
(D) Other individuals with experience or 
qualifications that the Secretary determines rel-
evant. 
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