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are designated with a school locale code of 6, 7,
or 8, as determined by the Secretary of Edu-
cation; and
‘‘(B)(i) for which there is a higher percent-
age of teachers providing instruction in aca-
demic subject areas or grade levels for which the
teachers are not highly qualified; or
‘‘(ii) for which there is a high teacher turn-
over rate or a high percentage of teachers with
emergency, provisional, or temporary certifi-
cation or licensure;’’;
(D) in paragraph (5) (as redesignated by
subparagraph (A)), by inserting ‘‘engineering,’’
after ‘‘mathematics, science,’’;
(E) by inserting after paragraph (5) (as re-
designated by subparagraph (A)) the following:
‘‘(6) the term ‘mathematics and science teaching’
means mathematics, science, engineering, or tech-
nology teaching at the elementary or secondary school
level;’’;
(F) in paragraph (7) (as redesignated by
subparagraph (A)) by inserting ‘‘or had a ca-
reer’’ after ‘‘is working’’; and
(G) by inserting after paragraph (7) (as re-
designated by subparagraph (A)) the following:
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‘‘(8) the term ‘partnership’ means a partnership
that shall include—
‘‘(A) an institution of higher education or a
consortium of such institutions;
‘‘(B) a department within an institution of
higher education participating in the partner-
ship that provides an advanced program of
study in mathematics and science;
‘‘(C)(i) a school or department within an
institution of higher education participating in
the partnership that provides a master teacher’s
preparation program; or
‘‘(ii) a 2-year institution of higher edu-
cation that has a teacher preparation offering or
a dual enrollment program with an institution
of higher education participating in the partner-
ship;
‘‘(D) not less than 1 high-need local edu-
cational agency and a public school or a consor-
tium of public schools served by the agency; and
‘‘(E) 1 or more nonprofit organizations that
have the capacity to provide expertise or support
to meet the purposes of this section;’’; and
(14) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(m) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—
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‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Within the amounts author-
ized to be appropriated by section 4001 of the Amer-
ica COMPETES Act and except as provided in para-
graph (2), there are authorized to be appropriated to
the Director for the Robert Noyce Teacher Program
under this section—
‘‘(A) $117,000,000 for fiscal year 2008, of
which at least $18,000,000 shall be used for ca-
pacity building activities described in clauses
(ii) and (iii) of subsection (a)(3)(A), clauses (ii)
and (iii) of subsection (a)(3)(B), and clauses (ii)
and (iii) of subsection (a)(3)(C);
‘‘(B) $130,000,000 for fiscal year 2009, of
which at least $21,000,000 shall be used for such
capacity building activities;
‘‘(C) $148,000,000 for fiscal year 2010, of
which at least $24,000,000 shall be used for such
capacity building activities; and
‘‘(D) $200,000,000 for fiscal year 2011, of
which at least $27,000,000 shall be used for such
capacity building activities.
‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—For any fiscal year for which
the funding allocated for activities under this section
is less than $105,000,000, the amount of funding
available for capacity building activities described in
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subparagraphs (A) through (D) of paragraph (1)
shall not exceed 15 percent of the allocated funds.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—
(1) SECTION
4.—Section 4 of the National
Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2002 (42
U.S.C. 1862n note) is amended in the matter pre-
ceding paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘In this Act:’’ and
inserting ‘‘Except as otherwise provided, in this Act:’’.
(2) SECTION 8.—Section 8(6) of the National
Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2002 (Pub-
lic Law 107–368) is amended—
(A) in the paragraph heading, by striking
‘‘SCHOLARSHIP’’ and inserting ‘‘TEACHER’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘Scholarship’’ and inserting
‘‘Teacher’’.
SEC. 4013. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING THE MATHE-
MATICS AND SCIENCE PARTNERSHIP PRO-
GRAMS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
AND THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION.
It is the sense of the Senate that—
(1) although the mathematics and science edu-
cation partnership program at the National Science
Foundation and the mathematics and science part-
nership program at the Department of Education
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practically share the same name, the 2 programs are
intended to be complementary, not duplicative;
(2) the National Science Foundation partnership
programs are innovative, model reform initiatives
that move promising ideas in education from research
into practice to improve teacher quality, develop chal-
lenging curricula, and increase student achievement
in mathematics and science, and Congress intends
that the National Science Foundation peer-reviewed
partnership programs found to be effective should be
put into wider practice by dissemination through the
Department of Education partnership programs; and
(3) the Director of the National Science Founda-
tion and the Secretary of Education should have on-
going collaboration to ensure that the 2 components
of this priority effort for mathematics and science
education continue to work in concert for the benefit
of States and local practitioners nationwide.
SEC. 4014. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION TEACHER IN-
STITUTES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY.
(a) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Within
the amounts authorized to be appropriated by section 4001,
there are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the
teacher institutes for the 21st century under paragraphs (3)
and (7) of section 9(a) of the National Science Foundation