I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1801 
To establish a national teaching fellowship program to encourage individuals 
to enter and remain in the field of teaching at public schools. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 21, 2005 
Mr. PRICE of North Carolina (for himself, Mr. ETHERIDGE, Mr. MCINTYRE, 
Mr. WATT, Mr. BERRY, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. OWENS, 
Mr. PAYNE, Mr. GUTIERREZ, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Mr. 
CHANDLER, Mr. STRICKLAND, and Mr. MILLER of North Carolina) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Edu-
cation and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To establish a national teaching fellowship program to en-
courage individuals to enter and remain in the field 
of teaching at public schools. 
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 ‘‘Teaching Fellows Act 
of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The United States faces an increasing need 
for high-quality educators. 
(2) Up to 1,000,000 of the country’s 3,000,000 
teachers will retire in the next 5 years. American 
schools will have to hire 2,200,000 teachers by 2010. 
(3) The Congress desires to inspire promising 
high school seniors and accomplished persons cur-
rently involved in the field of education to become 
certified teachers. 
(4) The opportunity created by a fellowship 
program would allow persons in the field of edu-
cation the financial opportunity to obtain a quality 
education which they would use to teach America’s 
youth. 
(5) The Congress desires to motivate those who 
go into the field of teaching to become career edu-
cators. 
(6) Many teacher assistants have received their 
training at community colleges and have the poten-
tial and desire to obtain degrees in education and 
certification as teachers. 
(7) Rural and inner-city communities could 
greatly benefit from encouraging those in the com-
munity who already have an interest in teaching to
pursue a degree in education and become career 
educators. 
SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM. 
Title II of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1021 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) by striking out the head of such title and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘TITLE II—TEACHER QUALITY 
‘‘PART A—TEACHER QUALITY ENHANCEMENT 
GRANTS FOR STATES AND PARTNERSHIPS’’; 
(2) by striking out ‘‘this title’’ each place it ap-
pears in section 201 through 209 and inserting ‘‘this 
part’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new part: 
‘‘PART B—FEDERAL TEACHING AND 
PARTNERSHIP FELLOWS 
‘‘SEC. 211. STATE TEACHING FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to en-
courage promising high school seniors and college under-
graduates to enter the field of teaching and become career 
educators. 
‘‘(b) ESTABLISHMENT OF TEACHING FELLOWS PRO-
GRAM.— 
‘‘(1) USE
OF
FUNDS
FOR
SCHOLARSHIPS.— 
From the funds appropriated under subsection (g),
the Secretary shall make grants available to States 
for the purpose of establishing State Teaching Fel-
lows Programs to provide scholarships for Teaching 
Fellows. Such scholarships shall be used to pay for 
higher education tuition, fees, and other costs of at-
tendance. 
‘‘(2) SELECTION OF FELLOWS.—Teaching Fel-
lows shall be selected from individuals who— 
‘‘(A) at the time of application, are high 
school seniors or in their second year of a pro-
gram of undergraduate education; 
‘‘(B) are United States citizens or legal 
aliens; 
‘‘(C) are residents of the State sponsoring 
the Fellows Program to which they are apply-
ing; and 
‘‘(D) meet the criteria established under 
subsection (d)(1)(B). 
‘‘(c) COMPETITION FOR FEDERAL FUNDS.— 
‘‘(1) STATE APPLICATION TO PROGRAM.—The 
governor of each State desiring to participate in the 
Partnership Program shall designate a single State 
agency to submit an application to the Secretary and 
to administer the State Fellows Program. Such 
agency shall have a full-time staff and may be a di-