I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 863 
To amend title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
to authorize State educational agencies and local educational agencies 
to carry out teacher exchanges. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 1, 2011 
Mr. PIERLUISI (for himself and Mr. DIAZ-BALART) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To amend title II of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act of 1965 to authorize State educational agen-
cies and local educational agencies to carry out teacher 
exchanges. 
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 ‘‘Teacher Exchange Act 
of 2011’’. 
SEC. 2. TEACHER EXCHANGES. 
(a) STATE USE OF FUNDS.—Section 2113(c) of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 
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U.S.C. 6613(c)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(19) Carrying out a teacher exchange under 
which the State educational agency— 
‘‘(A) sends highly qualified teachers with 
at least 3 years of teaching experience to an-
other State educational agency located in a dif-
ferent geographic region for a school year (in 
this paragraph referred to as the ‘receiving 
State educational agency’), provided that— 
‘‘(i) 1 of the State educational agen-
cies involved serves a high-need local edu-
cational agency; or 
‘‘(ii) the State educational agencies 
involved will be exchanging teachers in 
science, math, English as a second lan-
guage, special education, or other subject 
areas that have a high need for qualified 
teachers, as determined by the Secretary; 
‘‘(B) ensures that the teachers remain sub-
ject to the terms and conditions of employment 
that would have applied if the teachers had re-
mained at the State educational agency; 
‘‘(C) provides such teachers with payment 
of certain housing, travel, and other expenses 
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incurred by such teachers during participation 
in the exchange; 
‘‘(D) requires such teachers to return to 
the State educational agency for a period of 
time following such teachers’ participation in 
the exchange; and 
‘‘(E) develops and implements a plan to 
provide participating teachers with activities de-
signed to promote professional development, 
which may include— 
‘‘(i) an orientation session or courses 
to prepare such teachers for— 
‘‘(I) the exchange experience; 
‘‘(II) the community in which the 
receiving State educational agency is 
located and the schools in such agen-
cy; and 
‘‘(III) the particular grade level 
and curriculum assigned to the par-
ticipating teacher by the receiving 
State educational agency; 
‘‘(ii) a mentoring program through 
which each such teacher is paired with a 
mentor (who is not also a participating 
teacher) employed by the receiving State 
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educational agency who teaches in the 
same grade level or subject area that the 
participating teacher has been assigned to 
teach under the exchange; 
‘‘(iii) a forum for participating teach-
ers, led by an administrator or teacher at 
the receiving State educational agency, to 
engage in ongoing professional develop-
ment focused on improving classroom in-
struction to result in improved student out-
comes, including reading educational re-
search, reviewing student work, creating 
and reviewing formative and summative as-
sessments, analyzing data from student as-
sessments, and tracking student progress; 
and 
‘‘(iv) content-specific programs de-
signed to support participating teachers in 
teaching the specific curriculum in place at 
the receiving State educational agency and 
at the grade level to which each such 
teacher is assigned.’’. 
(b) LOCAL USE OF FUNDS.—Section 2123(a) of such 
Act (20 U.S.C. 6623(a)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
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‘‘(11) Carrying out a teacher exchange (regard-
less of whether the State educational agency serving 
the local educational agency participates in such ex-
change) under which the local educational agency— 
‘‘(A) sends highly qualified teachers with 
at least 3 years of teaching experience to an-
other local educational agency located in a dif-
ferent geographic region (in this paragraph re-
ferred to as the ‘receiving local educational 
agency’) for a school year (regardless of wheth-
er the State educational agency serving such 
local educational agency participates in such ex-
change), provided that— 
‘‘(i) 1 of the local educational agencies 
involved is a high-need local educational 
agency; or 
‘‘(ii) the local educational agencies in-
volved will be exchanging teachers in 
science, math, English as a second lan-
guage, special education, or other subject 
areas that have a high need for qualified 
teachers, as determined by the Secretary; 
‘‘(B) ensures that the teachers remain sub-
ject to the terms and conditions of employment 
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that would have applied if the teachers had re-
mained at the local educational agency; 
‘‘(C) provides such teachers with payment 
of certain housing, travel, and other expenses 
incurred by such teachers during participation 
in the exchange; 
‘‘(D) requires such teachers to return to 
the local educational agency for a period of time 
following such teachers’ participation in the ex-
change; and 
‘‘(E) develops and implements a plan to 
provide participating teachers with activities de-
signed to promote professional development, 
which may include— 
‘‘(i) an orientation session or courses 
to prepare such teachers for— 
‘‘(I) the exchange experience; 
‘‘(II) the community in which the 
receiving local educational agency is 
located and the schools in such agen-
cy; and 
‘‘(III) the particular grade level 
and curriculum assigned to the par-
ticipating teacher by the receiving 
local educational agency; 
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‘‘(ii) a mentoring program through 
which each such teacher is paired with a 
mentor (who is not also a participating 
teacher) employed by the receiving local 
educational agency who teaches in the 
same grade level or subject area that the 
participating teacher has been assigned to 
teach under the exchange; 
‘‘(iii) a forum for participating teach-
ers, led by an administrator or teacher at 
the receiving local educational agency, to 
engage in ongoing professional develop-
ment focused on improving classroom in-
struction to result in improved student out-
comes, including reading educational re-
search, reviewing student work, creating 
and reviewing formative and summative as-
sessments, analyzing data from student as-
sessments, and tracking student progress; 
and 
‘‘(iv) content-specific programs de-
signed to support participating teachers in 
teaching the specific curriculum in place at 
the receiving local educational agency and 
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at the grade level to which each such 
teacher is assigned.’’. 
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