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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3334 
To provide for recruiting, selecting, training, and supporting a national 
teacher corps in underserved communities. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 19, 2005 
Mr. CASTLE (for himself, Mr. REGULA, Mr. OSBORNE, Mr. FORD, and Mr. 
VAN HOLLEN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To provide for recruiting, selecting, training, and supporting 
a national teacher corps in underserved communities. 
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 ‘‘Teach for America 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PURPOSES. 
The purposes of this Act are as follows: 
(1) To grow the number of highly accomplished 
recent college graduates teaching in underserved 
urban and rural communities in the United States.
(2) To increase the number of school districts 
and communities served by a nationally recruited 
corps of outstanding new teachers. 
(3) To build a broader pipeline of talented and 
experienced future leaders in public education and 
education reform. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The terms ‘‘highly quali-
fied’’, ‘‘local educational agency’’, and ‘‘Secretary’’ 
have the meanings given the terms in section 9101 
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 
(2) GRANTEE.—The term ‘‘grantee’’ means 
Teach For America, Inc. 
(3) HIGH NEED.—The term ‘‘high need’’, when 
used with respect to a local educational agency, 
means a local educational agency experiencing a 
shortage of highly qualified teachers. 
SEC. 4. GRANT PROGRAM AUTHORIZED. 
The Secretary is authorized to award a grant to 
Teach For America, Inc., the national teacher corps of 
outstanding recent college graduates who commit to teach 
for 2 years in underserved communities in the United
States, to implement and expand its program of recruit-
ing, selecting, training, and supporting new teachers. 
SEC. 5. GRANT REQUIREMENTS. 
In carrying out the grant program under section 3, 
the Secretary shall enter into an agreement with the 
grantee under which the grantee agrees to use the grant 
funds provided under this Act— 
(1) to provide highly qualified teachers to high 
need local educational agencies in urban and rural 
communities; 
(2) to pay the cost of recruiting, selecting, 
training, and supporting new teachers; and 
(3) to serve a substantial number and percent-
age of underserved students. 
SEC. 6. AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Grant funds provided under this 
Act shall be used by the grantee to carry out each of the 
following activities: 
(1) Recruiting and selecting teachers through a 
highly selective national process. 
(2) Providing preservice training to the teachers 
through a rigorous summer institute that includes 
hands-on teaching experience and significant expo-
sure to education coursework and theory.
(3) Placing the teachers in schools and posi-
tions designated by partner local educational agen-
cies as high need placements serving underserved 
students. 
(4) Providing ongoing professional development 
activities for the teachers’ first 2 years in the class-
room, including regular classroom observations and 
feedback, and ongoing training and support. 
(b) LIMITATION.—The grantee shall use all grant 
funds received under this Act to support activities related 
directly to the recruitment, selection, training, and sup-
port of teachers as described in subsection (a). 
SEC. 7. EVALUATION. 
(a) ANNUAL REPORT.—The grantee shall provide to 
the Secretary an annual report that includes— 
(1) data on the number and quality of the 
teachers provided to local educational agencies 
through a grant under this Act; 
(2) an externally conducted analysis of the sat-
isfaction of local educational agencies and principals 
with the teachers so provided; and 
(3) comprehensive data on the background of 
the teachers chosen, the training the teachers re-
ceived, the placement sites of the teachers, the pro-
fessional development of the teachers, and the reten-
tion of the teachers. 
(b) STUDY.—The Secretary shall provide for a study 
comparing the achievement and gains of students taught 
by the teachers assisted under this Act with the achieve-
ment and gains of students taught by other teachers in 
the same placement communities. The Secretary shall pro-
vide for such a study not less than once every 3 years, 
and each such study shall include multiple placement sites 
or the Secretary shall provide for multiple such studies. 
Each such study shall meet the peer-review standards of 
the education research community. 
SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this Act $12,000,000 for fiscal year 2006 and such sums 
as may be necessary for each succeeding fiscal year. 
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