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‘‘(1) Developing appraisal systems that reflect 
clear and fair measures of student academic achieve-
ment. 
‘‘(2) Conducting outreach within the local edu-
cational agency (or agencies) or the State to gain 
input on how to construct the appraisal system and 
to develop support for it. 
‘‘(3) Paying, as part of a comprehensive per-
formance-based compensation system, bonuses and 
increased salaries to teachers and principals who 
raise student academic achievement, so long as the 
grantee uses an increasing share of non-Federal 
funds to pay these monetary rewards each year of 
the grant. 
‘‘(4) Paying, as part of a comprehensive per-
formance-based compensation system, additional bo-
nuses to teachers who both raise student academic 
achievement and either teach in high-poverty schools 
or teach subjects that are difficult to staff, or both, 
so long as the grantee uses an increasing share of 
non-Federal funds to pay these monetary rewards 
each year of the grant. 
‘‘(5) Paying, as part of a comprehensive per-
formance-based compensation system, additional bo-
nuses to principals who both raise student academic
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achievement and serve in high-poverty schools, so 
long as the grantee uses an increasing share of non-
Federal funds to pay these monetary rewards each 
year of the grant. 
‘‘(c) APPLICATIONS.—To be eligible to receive a grant 
under this part, an eligible entity shall submit an applica-
tion that includes—
‘‘(1) a description of the local educational agen-
cy or local educational agencies to be served by the 
project, including such demographic information as 
the Secretary may request; 
‘‘(2) information on student academic achieve-
ment and the quality of the teachers and principals 
in the local educational agency or agencies to be 
served by the project; 
‘‘(3) a description of the performance-based 
teacher and principal compensation system that the 
applicant proposes to develop and implement or ex-
pand; 
‘‘(4) a description of how the applicant will use 
grant funds under this part in each year of the 
grant; 
‘‘(5) an explanation of how the applicant will 
meet the requirement in subsection (b)(3) and how
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the grantee will continue its performance-based com-
pensation system after the grant ends; 
‘‘(6) a description of the support and commit-
ment from teachers, the community or local edu-
cational agency or agencies for the development and 
implementation, or expansion, of a performance-
based teacher and principal compensation system; 
‘‘(7) a description of how teacher, principal and 
student performance will be measured and the base-
line measurement units; and 
‘‘(8) a description, if applicable, of how the ap-
plicant will define the term ‘high-quality’ for the 
purposes of subsection (a)(2)(B)(i), through the use 
of measurable indicators, such as effectiveness in 
raising student academic achievement, or dem-
onstrated mastery of subject matter knowledge. 
‘‘(d) PRIORITY.—The Secretary shall give priority to 
applications for projects that would establish comprehen-
sive performance-based compensation systems in high-
need local educational agencies. 
‘‘SEC. 243. EVALUATIONS. 
‘‘The Secretary shall conduct an independent evalua-
tion of the program under this part and may use up to 
1 percent of the funds made available under this part or
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$1,000,000, whichever is less, for any fiscal year for the 
cost of the evaluation. 
‘‘SEC. 244. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this part $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2007 and such sums 
as may be necessary for each of the 5 succeeding fiscal 
years.’’. 
SEC. 205. NATIONAL TEACHER CORPS. 
Title II (20 U.S.C. 1021 et seq.), as amended by sec-
tion 204 of this Act, is further amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘PART E—NATIONAL TEACHER CORPS 
‘‘SEC. 251. PURPOSES. 
‘‘The purposes of this part are—
‘‘(1) to raise 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; and 
‘‘(3) to build a broader pipeline of talented and 
experienced future leaders in public education and 
education reform. 
‘‘SEC. 252. DEFINITIONS. 
‘‘In this part:
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‘‘(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) 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, as determined 
by the Secretary. 
‘‘SEC. 253. GRANT PROGRAM AUTHORIZED. 
‘‘The Secretary is authorized to award a grant to a 
highly-selective national teacher corps to implement and 
expand its program of recruiting, selecting, training, and 
supporting new teachers. The grantee shall be a highly-
selective national teacher corps that—
‘‘(1) focuses a national recruitment effort on re-
cent college graduates from all academic majors; 
‘‘(2) trains such graduates through intensive 
summer institutes; 
‘‘(3) places such graduates as teachers in public 
schools in school districts of high need local edu-
cational agencies in urban and rural communities 
across multiple States; and
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‘‘(4) supports and measures the progress of 
such teachers through intensive professional develop-
ment. 
‘‘SEC. 254. GRANT REQUIREMENTS. 
‘‘In carrying out the grant program under this part, 
the Secretary shall enter into an agreement with the 
grantee under which the grantee agrees to use the grant 
funds—
‘‘(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. 255. AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES. 
‘‘Grant funds provided under this part 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 selected 
teachers through a rigorous summer institute that 
includes hands-on teaching experience and signifi-
cant exposure to education coursework and theory.