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the Department of Education and how to
obtain products and technical services from
the Department;
‘‘(ii) meet with the National Diffusion
Network State Facilitator to coordinate
and not duplicate efforts in the dissemina-
tion of exemplary educational programs;
‘‘(iii) help interested schools identify
resources needed to address the school’s
needs and act as liaison between the school
and the appropriate resource entities, such
as regional educational laboratories, cen-
ters, national institutes, institutions of
higher education, professional teacher or-
ganizations, scholars, consultants, and
other schools and school districts that may
be of assistance;
‘‘(iv) teach other teachers how to use
the products, programs, and processes in
which the teacher was trained pursuant to
paragraph (2)(C)(II);
‘‘(v) work with other teachers and
teacher teams to adapt identified exem-
plary practices, programs, and research re-
sults to implement school site or classroom
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improvements as desired, and provide fol-
low-up activities throughout a 2-year pe-
riod to ensure the successful adaptation
and implementation of such programs in
local schools; and
‘‘(vi) inform teachers about how they
can obtain Federal research funding, fel-
lowships, and sabbaticals.
‘‘(G) APPLICATION.—
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—Each regional
partnership desiring a contract under this
subsection shall submit to the Secretary an
application at such time, in such manner,
and accompanied by such information as
the Assistant Secretary may reasonably re-
quire.
‘‘(ii) CONTENTS.—Each application
described in clause (i) shall—
‘‘(I) contain a plan acceptable to
affected States and local education
agencies for conducting the program
to be assisted under this section;
‘‘(II) contain assurances that the
partnership requirements are fulfilled;
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‘‘(III) contain assurances that
both district and school site teacher
teams will be established to work in
conjunction with the teacher change
agent;
‘‘(IV) contain a plan for the se-
lection of district and school site
teacher team participants and others
as deemed appropriate by the teacher
change agent and the regional part-
nership;
‘‘(V) contain assurances that the
regional partnership, in conjunction
with the participating school districts,
shall provide each teacher change
agent with a stipend for the entire
calendar year commensurate with
such teacher’s salary and travel ex-
penses, to permit a teacher to partici-
pate in such program without incur-
ring loss of income;
‘‘(VI) contain assurances that
each teacher change agent participat-
ing in the program shall receive an
award of not more than $10,000 to be
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used by such teacher during the
school year of such teacher’s partici-
pation to purchase materials, support,
and coordinate with other teachers or
site teacher teams in the school dis-
trict;
‘‘(VII) contain assurances that
such regional partnerships shall pro-
vide not more than $5,000 to each
school district or group of school dis-
tricts having an individual from such
district or districts participating in
the program assisted under this sec-
tion for each of the 2 years following
such participation to enable such
school district or districts to continue
efforts to improve dissemination of ef-
fective practices and programs within
the district or districts;
‘‘(VIII) contain assurances that
representatives of State educational
agencies, 
intermediate 
educational
agencies, teacher centers, teacher edu-
cators at institutions of higher edu-
cation, and school district in-service or
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curriculum specialists will be eligible
to participate in the program assisted
under this section if such individuals
pay the cost of their participation;
and
‘‘(IX) contain an assurance that
such regional partnership shall permit
a teacher to participate in the pro-
gram only after such partnership de-
termines that the teacher will be af-
forded a full opportunity by the dis-
trict to perform such teacher’s respon-
sibilities described in subparagraph
(2)(F).
‘‘(3) TEACHER SELECTION AND ELIGIBILITY.—
‘‘(A) NOMINATION.—Teacher participants
in the program assisted under this subsection
shall be nominated by their peers at the school
district level.
‘‘(B) ELIGIBILITY.—Each school district
or group of school districts desiring to have
teachers from such district or districts partici-
pate in the program assisted under this sub-
section shall provide the regional partnership
with the names of such teachers, and an indica-
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tion of the type of issues or problems on which
each such teacher would like to receive informa-
tion and training.
‘‘(C) SELECTION.—
‘‘(i) Teacher participants shall be se-
lected by the regional partnerships in con-
sultation with the State educational agen-
cies in the region. Teacher participants
shall be selected in such a manner so as to
ensure an equitable representation of such
teachers by State within the region.
‘‘(ii) The number of teachers selected
each year shall be determined in accord-
ance with the amount of funding received
by the regional partnership.
‘‘(4) INDEPENDENT EVALUATION.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Board shall pro-
vide for an independent evaluation of the pro-
gram assisted under this subsection to deter-
mine the net impact and cost effectiveness of
the program and the reactions of teachers and
school districts participating in such program.
‘‘(B) DATE.—The evaluation described in
subparagraph (A) shall be submitted to the
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Congress within 6 months after the completion
of the third year of the program.
‘‘(C) FUNDING.—The Assistant Secretary
may reserve not more than $250,000 of the
amount 
appropriated 
under 
section
405(i)(2)(E) to carry out the evaluation de-
scribed in this paragraph.’’.
TITLE V—NATIONAL LIBRARY OF
EDUCATION
SEC. 
501. 
ESTABLISHMENT 
WITHIN 
OFFICE 
OF 
EDU-
CATIONAL RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT.
Part A of the General Education Provisions Act, as
amended by section 401 of this Act, is amended by insert-
ing after section 405C the following new section:
‘‘NATIONAL LIBRARY OF EDUCATION
‘‘SEC. 405D. (a) IN GENERAL.—There is established
within the Office a National Library of Education (here-
after in this section referred to as the ‘Library’), which
shall be maintained as a governmental activity. The Office
shall carry out this section acting through the Library.
‘‘(b) FUNCTIONS OF LIBRARY.—The functions of the
Library are—
‘‘(1) to provide a central location within the
Federal Government for information about edu-
cation;
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‘‘(2) to provide comprehensive reference services
on matters related to education to employees of the
Department of Education and its contractors and
grantees, other Federal employees, and members of
the public; and
‘‘(3) to promote greater cooperation and re-
source sharing among providers and repositories of
education information in the United States.
‘‘(c) ONE-STOP INFORMATION AND REFERRAL SERV-
ICE.—The Library shall establish and maintain a central
information and referral service to respond to telephonic,
mail and electronic and other inquiries from the public
concerning—
‘‘(1) programs and activities of the Department
of Education;
‘‘(2) publications produced by the Department
of Education and, to the extent feasible, education
related publications produced by the Departments of
Labor, Health and Human Services, and other Fed-
eral agencies;
‘‘(3) services and resources available to the pub-
lic through the Office, including the ERIC Clearing-
houses, the research institutes, and the national edu-
cation dissemination system;
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‘‘(4) statistics and other information produced
by the National Center for Education Statistics; and
‘‘(5) referrals to additional sources of informa-
tion and expertise about educational issues which
may be available through educational associations
and foundations, the private sector, colleges and uni-
versities, libraries and bibliographic databases.
The Library shall maintain and actively publicize a toll-
free telephone number through which public inquiries to
the Library may be made.
‘‘(d) COMPREHENSIVE REFERENCE SERVICES.—The
Library shall provide for the delivery of a full range of
reference services on subjects related to education to em-
ployees of the Department and its contractors and grant-
ees, other Federal employees, and members of the general
public. Such services may include—
‘‘(1) specialized subject searches;
‘‘(2) 
search 
and 
retrieval 
of 
electronic
databases;
‘‘(3) document delivery by mail and facsimile
transmission;
‘‘(4) research counseling, bibliographic instruc-
tion, and other training services;
‘‘(5) interlibrary loan services; and
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‘‘(6) selective dissemination of information serv-
ices.
The Library shall first give priority in the provision of
reference services to requests made by employees of the
Department.
‘‘(e) COOPERATION AND RESOURCE SHARING.—The
Library shall promote greater cooperation and resource
sharing among libraries and archives with significant col-
lections in the area of education through such means as—
‘‘(1) the establishment of information and re-
source sharing networks among such entities;
‘‘(2) the development of a national union list of
education journals held by education libraries
throughout the United States;
‘‘(3) the development of directories and indexes
to textbook and other specialized collections held by
education libraries throughout the United States;
and
‘‘(4) cooperative efforts to preserve, maintain
and promote access to items of special historical
value or interest.
‘‘(f) ADMINISTRATION.—The Library shall be admin-
istered by an Executive Director who shall—
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‘‘(1) be appointed by the Assistant Secretary
from among persons with significant training or ex-
perience in library and information science;
‘‘(2) serve for a renewable term of 4 years; and
‘‘(3) be paid at not less than the minimum rate
of basic pay payable for GS–15 of the General
Schedule.
‘‘(g) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS.—There are hereby
transferred to the Library all functions of—
‘‘(1) the Department of Education Research Li-
brary;
‘‘(2) the Department of Education Reference
Section; and
‘‘(3) the Department of Education Information
Branch.
‘‘(h) COLLECTION
DEVELOPMENT
POLICY.—Not
later than 180 days after the enactment of the Edu-
cational Research, Development, and Dissemination Ex-
cellence Act, the Executive Director shall promulgate a
comprehensive collection development policy to govern the
Library’s operations, acquisitions, and services to users.
Such collection development policy shall—
‘‘(1) be consistent with the functions of the Li-
brary set out in subsection (b);