sence, at a public school that at the time the re-
cipient accepts employment is a low-performing 
school, as defined by State educational agency 
or the Secretary of Education. 
‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—Paragraph (1) shall not 
apply if the State agency finds that it is impossible 
for the recipient to teach for 4 years, within 7 years 
after the recipient graduates, at a public school be-
cause of the death or permanent disability of the re-
cipient. 
‘‘(f) REVOLVING FUNDING.—Any funds repaid by a 
Teaching Fellow pursuant to subsection (e), together with 
any interest thereon, may be retained by the State agency 
for making available additional scholarships under this 
section, and for paying costs related to the disbursement 
of awards and the collection of payments under subsection 
(e). 
‘‘(g) FUNDS.—There is authorized to be appropriated 
to carry out this section $200,000,000 for fiscal year 2006 
and such sums as may be necessary for the 4 succeeding 
fiscal years. 
‘‘(h) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this section: 
‘‘(1) FELLOWS PROGRAM.—The term ‘Fellows 
Program’ means the program established under this 
section.
‘‘(2) TEACHING FELLOWS.—The term ‘Teach-
ing Fellow’ means an individual selected for an 
award of financial assistance under this section. 
‘‘(3) STATE.—The term ‘State’ includes the 
several States, the District of Columbia, and the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. 
‘‘(4) STATE AGENCY.—The term ‘State agency’ 
means the agency designated pursuant to subsection 
(c)(1). 
‘‘SEC. 212. TEACHING FELLOWS PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to en-
courage members of the education community, such as 
teaching assistants and other school employees who are 
not yet certified teachers, to obtain a degree in education. 
‘‘(b) ESTABLISHMENT OF PARTNERSHIP FELLOWS 
PROGRAM.— 
‘‘(1) USE
OF
FUNDS
FOR
SCHOLARSHIPS.— 
From the funds appropriated under subsection (h), 
the Secretary shall make grants available to States 
for the purpose of establishing Partnership Pro-
grams between associate-degree-granting institutions 
and bachelor-degree-granting institutions. 
‘‘(2) SELECTION
OF
FELLOWS.—Partnership 
Fellows shall be selected from individuals who—
‘‘(A) are United States citizens or legal 
aliens; 
‘‘(B) are residents of the State sponsoring 
the partnership program to which they are ap-
plying; and 
‘‘(C) meet the criteria established under 
subsection (e)(1). 
‘‘(c) COMPETITION FOR FEDERAL FUNDS.— 
‘‘(1) STATE
REVIEW
AND
SUBMISSION.—The 
governor of each State desiring to participate in the 
Partnership Program shall designate a single State 
education department, a coordinating or governing 
board of higher education, or other agency— 
‘‘(A) to receive and review partnership pro-
posals from associate-degree-granting institu-
tions and bachelor-degree-granting institutions 
within the State; 
‘‘(B) to determine which proposals delin-
eate Partnership Programs to be created be-
tween associate-degree-granting institutions and 
bachelor-degree-granting institutions that are 
the most promising in carrying out the pur-
poses of this section; 
‘‘(C) to submit the partnership proposals 
that are approved by the State agency to the
Secretary for competitive selection in the form 
of one single partnership proposal application; 
and 
‘‘(D) to administer the funds available 
under this section. 
‘‘(2) COMPETITIVE
SELECTION.—From the 
partnership proposal applications submitted by State 
agencies under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall 
select for funding under this section those applica-
tions that the Secretary determines to be the most 
promising in carrying out the purposes of the Part-
nership Program. The Secretary shall distribute the 
awards for each selected application to the State 
agency that submitted the application. 
‘‘(d) REQUIREMENTS FOR STATE RECEIPT OF FED-
ERAL FUNDS.—A State agency that submits a partnership 
proposal application to the Secretary under subsection (c) 
shall provide to the Secretary such information and assur-
ances as the Secretary may require to demonstrate that 
the State will comply with the following requirements: 
‘‘(1) Any State whose partnership proposal ap-
plication is selected to receive Federal funds as au-
thorized by this section shall match the Federal 
funding by providing at least 25 percent of the total 
cost of the Partnership Program or Programs.
‘‘(2) The State agency may reserve up to 20 
percent of its Federal funding to be used for admin-
istrative costs associated with the creation of articu-
lation agreements between one or more associate-de-
gree-granting institutions and one or more bachelor- 
degree-granting institutions that detail the partner-
ship arrangement between the institutions. Such re-
served administrative funds shall be made available 
to the Partnership institutions in order to support 
curricula alignment between the associate-degree 
granting institution’s and the bachelor-degree-grant-
ing institution’s requirements and to allow the Part-
nership institutions to sponsor extra-curricular ac-
tivities for its Fellows as specified in subsection 
(e)(3). 
‘‘(3) The State agency shall be responsible for 
determining how the funds provided under this sec-
tion are allocated among specific partnership pro-
posals or to administer the allocation of funds for an 
approved state-wide Partnership Program. 
‘‘(4) The State agency shall be responsible for 
assuring such funds are used to provide full-time 
Partnership Fellows with scholarships of no less 
than $6,500 per year, which shall be available for 
each of the four years of undergraduate education
remaining after the year of the Fellow’s selection, 
and for a fifth year of undergraduate education if 
such year is required in order to obtain a bachelor’s 
degree with a State license or certificate to teach. 
Partnership Fellows pursuing a part-time course 
load, as defined by the institution attended, shall re-
ceive a pro rata scholarship over a period not to ex-
ceed six years. The annual scholarship amount shall 
be a fraction of the full-time scholarship amount and 
shall be reduced according to the number of credits 
being pursued. Partnership Programs also may 
make scholarship funds available during the period 
of student teaching as prescribed by subsection 
(e)(6). 
‘‘(5) The State agency will use funds received 
under this section only to supplement the amount of 
funds that would, in the absence of such Federal 
funds, be made available from non-Federal sources 
for the purposes of this section, and not to supplant 
such funds. 
‘‘(e) REQUIREMENTS
FOR
PARTNERSHIP
PRO-
POSALS.—Each partnership proposal under this section 
shall be submitted by one or more associate-degree-grant-
ing institutions and one or more bachelor-degree-granting 
institutions and shall propose the establishment of a pro-