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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4599
To establish a pilot program to encourage certification of teachers in low-
income, low-performing public elementary and secondary schools by the
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, and for other pur-
poses.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL 25, 2002
Mrs. DAVIS of California introduced the following bill; which was referred to
the Committee on Education and the Workforce
A BILL
To establish a pilot program to encourage certification of
teachers in low-income, low-performing public elementary
and secondary schools by the National Board for Profes-
sional Teaching Standards, and for other purposes.
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 ‘‘National Board-Cer-
tified Teachers in Low-Performing Schools Act of 2002’’.
SEC. 2. PILOT STIPEND INCENTIVE PROGRAM FOR CER-
TIFICATION BY THE NATIONAL BOARD FOR
PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS.
(a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary of Edu-
cation shall establish a 5-year pilot program under which
Board-certified teachers in low-income, low-performing
schools receive stipends under this section. The Secretary
may provide stipends for up to 100 teachers annually
under this section. The Secretary shall seek the coopera-
tion and assistance of the National Board for Professional
Teaching Standards in carrying out this section.
(b) ANNUAL BASE STIPEND REQUIREMENTS.—A
Board-certified teacher shall receive an annual base sti-
pend of $5,000 under this section, for up to 4 years, if,
for each year the teacher receives a stipend, the teacher—
(1) is employed in a school that is a low-income,
low-performing school in the first year the teacher
receives the stipend;
(2) acts as the resident facilitator for the
school, including by—
(A) conducting outreach among teachers
who may seek to become, or are in the process
of becoming, Board-certified (including by hold-
ing a minimum number of events or contacts
within the faculty of the school); and
(B) facilitating participation in a support
program for teachers who are in the process of
becoming Board-certified; and
(3) serves as a liaison with the National Board
for Professional Teaching Standards, to recommend
ways to encourage teachers to aspire to receive
Board certification.
(c) BONUS STIPENDS.—A recipient of an annual base
stipend under subsection (b) may receive a bonus stipend
of $1,000 for each teacher who completes the process for
becoming Board-certified at the school for which the re-
cipient is the resident facilitator (even though such teacher
may not necessarily become Board-certified at the comple-
tion of such process).
(d) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The Secretary of Edu-
cation shall submit to the Congress not earlier than the
end of the fourth year, nor later than the end, of the pilot
program under this section, a report on the effectiveness
of the program in increasing the number of Board-cer-
tified teachers in the low-income, low-performing schools
in which the program’s stipend recipients teach, including
any appropriate findings or recommendations.
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: