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‘‘(A) professional development must be focused on
teaching and learning in order to improve the opportunities
of all students to achieve higher standards;
‘‘(B) effective professional development focuses on dis-
cipline-based knowledge and effective subject-specific peda-
gogical skills, involves teams of teachers, and, where appro-
priate, administrators and pupil services personnel, in a
school and, through professional networks of teachers, and,
where appropriate, teacher educators, administrators, pupil
services personnel, and parents, is interactive and collabo-
rative, motivates by its intrinsic content and relationship
to practice, builds on experience and learning-by-doing,
and becomes incorporated into the everyday life of the
school;
‘‘(C) 
professional 
development 
can 
dramatically
improve classroom instruction and learning when teachers,
and, where appropriate, administrators, pupil services
personnel, and parents, are partners in the development
and implementation of such professional development; and
‘‘(D) new and innovative strategies for teaching to high
standards will require time for teachers, outside of the
time spent teaching, for instruction, practice, and collegial
collaboration.
‘‘(5) Special attention must be given in professional develop-
ment activities to ensure that education professionals are
knowledgeable of, and make use of, strategies for serving popu-
lations that historically have lacked access to equal opportuni-
ties for advanced learning and career advancement.
‘‘(6) Professional development is often a victim of budget
reductions in fiscally difficult times.
‘‘(7) The Federal Government has a vital role in helping
States and local educational agencies to make sustained and
intensive high-quality professional development in the core aca-
demic subjects become an integral part of the elementary and
secondary education system.
‘‘(8) Professional development activities must prepare
teachers, pupil services personnel, paraprofessionals and other
staff in the collaborative skills needed to appropriately teach
children with disabilities, in the core academic subjects.
‘‘(9) Parental involvement is an important aspect of school
reform and improvement. There is a need for special attention
to ensure the effective involvement of parents in the education
of their children. Professional development should include
methods and strategies to better prepare teachers and, where
appropriate, administrators, to enable parents to participate
fully and effectively in their children’s education.
‘‘SEC. 2002. PURPOSES.
‘‘The purposes of this title are to provide assistance to State
and local educational agencies and to institutions of higher edu-
cation with teacher education programs so that such agencies and
institutions can determine how best to improve the teaching and
learning of all students by—
‘‘(1) helping to ensure that teachers, and, where appro-
priate, other staff and administrators, have access to sustained
and intensive high-quality professional development that is
aligned to challenging State content standards and challenging
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State student performance standards, and to support the devel-
opment and implementation of sustained and intensive high-
quality professional development activities in the core academic
subjects; and
‘‘(2) helping to ensure that teachers, and, where appro-
priate, administrators, other staff, pupil services personnel,
and parents, have access to professional development that—
‘‘(A) is tied to challenging State content standards and
challenging State student performance standards;
‘‘(B) reflects recent research on teaching and learning;
‘‘(C) includes strong academic content and pedagogical
components;
‘‘(D) incorporates effective strategies, techniques, meth-
ods, and practices for meeting the educational needs of
diverse student populations, including females, minorities,
individuals with disabilities, limited-English-proficient
individuals, and economically disadvantaged individuals,
in order to ensure that all students have the opportunity
to achieve challenging State student performance stand-
ards;
‘‘(E) is of sufficient intensity and duration to have
a positive and lasting impact on the teacher’s performance
in the classroom; and
‘‘(F) is part of the everyday life of the school and
creates an orientation toward continuous improvement
throughout the school.
‘‘SEC. 2003. AUTHORIZATION 
OF 
APPROPRIATIONS; 
ALLOCATION
BETWEEN PARTS.
‘‘(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For the purpose of
carrying out this title, there are authorized to be appropriated
$800,000,000 for fiscal year 1995 and such sums as may be nec-
essary for each of the four succeeding fiscal years.
‘‘(b) ALLOCATION BETWEEN PARTS.—Of the amounts appro-
priated to carry out this title for any fiscal year, the Secretary
shall make available—
‘‘(1) 5 percent of such amounts to carry out subpart 1,
of which 5 percent of such 5 percent shall be available to
carry out section 2103;
‘‘(2) 94 percent of such amounts to carry out part B; and
‘‘(3) 1 percent of such amounts to carry out part C except
that such 1 percent shall not exceed $3,200,000 in any fiscal
year.
‘‘PART A—FEDERAL ACTIVITIES
‘‘SEC. 2101. PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary is authorized to make grants
to, and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with, local
educational agencies, educational service agencies, State edu-
cational agencies, State agencies for higher education, institutions
of higher education, and other public and private agencies, organiza-
tions, and institutions to—
‘‘(1) support activities of national significance that the Sec-
retary determines will contribute to the development and
implementation of high-quality professional development activi-
ties in the core academic subjects; and
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‘‘(2) evaluate activities carried out under this part and
parts B and C, in accordance with section 14701.
‘‘(b) REQUIREMENTS.—In carrying out the activities described
in subsection (a), the Secretary shall coordinate professional devel-
opment programs within the Department, particularly with those
programs within the Office of Educational Research and Improve-
ment and the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Serv-
ices, and shall consult and coordinate with the National Science
Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the
National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute of Museum Services,
and other appropriate Federal agencies and entities.
‘‘SEC. 2102. AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES.
‘‘(a) ACTIVITIES.—The Secretary shall use funds available to
carry out this part for—
‘‘(1) providing seed money to the entities described in sec-
tion 2101(a) to develop the capacity of such entities to offer
sustained and intensive high-quality professional development;
‘‘(2) awarding a grant or contract, in consultation with
the Director of the National Science Foundation, to establish
an Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and
Science Education (hereafter in this section referred to as the
‘Clearinghouse’); and
‘‘(3) evaluating programs assisted under this part and parts
B and C, in accordance with section 14701.
‘‘(b) CLEARINGHOUSE.—
‘‘(1) APPLICATION AND AWARD BASIS.—Each entity desiring
to establish and operate the Clearinghouse authorized by sub-
section (a)(2) shall submit an application to the Secretary at
such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such informa-
tion as the Secretary may reasonably require. The grant or
contract awarded pursuant to subsection (a)(2) shall be made
on a competitive, merit basis.
‘‘(2) DURATION.—The grant or contract awarded under sub-
section (a)(2) shall be awarded for a period of five years and
shall be reviewed by the Secretary not later than 30 months
from the date the grant or contract is awarded.
‘‘(3) USE OF FUNDS.—The grant or contract awarded under
subsection (a)(2) shall be used to—
‘‘(A) maintain a permanent repository of mathematics
and science education instructional materials and programs
for elementary and secondary schools, including middle
schools (including, to the extent practicable, all materials
and programs developed with Federal and non-Federal
funds, such as instructional materials developed by the
Department, materials developed by State and national
mathematics and science programs assisted under this
part, and other instructional materials) for use by the
regional consortia established under part C of title XIII
and by the general public;
‘‘(B) compile information on all mathematics and
science education programs administered by each Federal
agency or department;
‘‘(C) disseminate information, programs, and instruc-
tional materials to the public, dissemination networks, and
the regional consortia established under part C of title
XIII;
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‘‘(D) coordinate with identifiable and existing data
bases containing mathematics and science curriculum and
instructional materials, including Federal, non-Federal,
and, where feasible, international, data bases;
‘‘(E) participate in collaborative meetings of representa-
tives of the Clearinghouse and the regional consortia estab-
lished under part C of title XIII to discuss issues of common
interest and concern, to foster effective collaboration and
cooperation in acquiring and distributing curriculum mate-
rials and programs, and to coordinate computer network
access to the Clearinghouse and the resources of the
regional consortia, except that not more than 3 percent
of the funds awarded under subsection (a)(2) shall be used
to carry out this subparagraph; and
‘‘(F) gather qualitative and evaluative data on submis-
sions to the Clearinghouse.
‘‘(4) SUBMISSION TO CLEARINGHOUSE.—Each Federal agency
or department which develops mathematics or science education
instructional material or programs, including the National
Science Foundation and the Department, shall submit to the
Clearinghouse copies of such material or programs.
‘‘(5) PEER REVIEW.—The Secretary shall establish a peer
review process to select the recipient of the award under sub-
section (a)(2).
‘‘(6) STEERING COMMITTEE.—The Secretary may appoint a
steering committee to recommend policies and activities for
the Clearinghouse.
‘‘(7) APPLICATION
OF
COPYRIGHT
LAWS.—Nothing in this
subsection shall be construed to allow the use or copying,
in any media, of any material collected by the Clearinghouse
that is protected under the copyright laws of the United States
unless the permission of the owner of the copyright is obtained.
The Clearinghouse, in carrying out the provisions of this sub-
section, shall ensure compliance with title 17, United States
Code.
‘‘(8) DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION.—The Secretary shall
disseminate information concerning the grant or contract
awarded under this section to State and local educational agen-
cies and institutions of higher education. Such dissemination
of information shall include examples of exemplary national
programs in mathematics and science instruction and necessary
technical assistance for the establishment of similar programs.
‘‘(c) USES OF FUNDS.—The Secretary may use funds available
to carry out this part for—
‘‘(1) the development and maintenance of national clearing-
houses for core academic subjects as the Secretary determines
are needed and which shall be administered as adjunct clearing-
houses of the Educational Resources Information Center
Clearinghouses system of clearinghouses supported by the
Office of Educational Research and Improvement;
‘‘(2) professional development institutes that provide teach-
ers or teams of teachers, and, where appropriate, administra-
tors, pupil services personnel and other staff, from individual
schools, with professional development that contains strong
and integrated disciplinary and pedagogical components;
‘‘(3) encouraging the development of local and national
professional networks, such as the Teacher Research Dissemi-