dress the needs of limited English proficient stu-
dents. 
‘‘(f) SPECIAL RULE.—At least 50 percent of the 
funds made available to an eligible partnership under this 
section shall be used directly to benefit the high-need local 
educational agency included in the partnership. Any entity 
described in subsection (b)(1)(A) may be the fiscal agent 
under this section. 
‘‘(g) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section shall 
be construed to prohibit an eligible partnership from using 
grant funds to coordinate with the activities of more than 
one Governor, State board of education, State educational 
agency, local educational agency, or State agency for high-
er education. 
‘‘(h) SUPPLEMENT, NOT SUPPLANT.—Funds made 
available under this section shall be used to supplement, 
and not supplant, other Federal, State, and local funds 
that would otherwise be expended to carry out the pur-
poses of this section. 
‘‘SEC. 204. TEACHER RECRUITMENT GRANTS. 
‘‘(a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—From amounts made 
available under section 210(3) for a fiscal year, the Sec-
retary is authorized to award grants, on a competitive 
basis, to eligible applicants to enable the eligible applicants 
to carry out activities described in subsection (d).
‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE APPLICANT DEFINED.—In this part, 
the term ‘eligible applicant’ means— 
‘‘(1) an eligible State described in section 
202(b); or 
‘‘(2) an eligible partnership described in section 
203(b). 
‘‘(c) APPLICATION.—Any eligible applicant desiring 
to receive a grant under this section shall submit an appli-
cation to the Secretary at such time, in such form, and 
containing such information as the Secretary may require, 
including— 
‘‘(1) a description of the assessment that the el-
igible applicant, and the other entities with whom 
the eligible applicant will carry out the grant activi-
ties, have undertaken to determine the most critical 
needs of the participating high-need local edu-
cational agencies; 
‘‘(2) a description of the activities the eligible 
applicant will carry out with the grant, including the 
extent to which the applicant will use funds to re-
cruit minority students to become highly qualified 
teachers; and 
‘‘(3) a description of the eligible applicant’s 
plan for continuing the activities carried out with 
the grant, once Federal funding ceases.
‘‘(d) USES OF FUNDS.—Each eligible applicant re-
ceiving a grant under this section shall use the grant 
funds— 
‘‘(1)(A) to award scholarships to help students, 
such as individuals who have been accepted for their 
first year, or who are enrolled in their first or second 
year, of a program of undergraduate education at an 
institution of higher education, pay the costs of tui-
tion, room, board, and other expenses of completing 
a teacher preparation program; 
‘‘(B) to provide support services, if needed to 
enable scholarship recipients— 
‘‘(i) to complete postsecondary education 
programs; or 
‘‘(ii) to transition from a career outside of 
the field of education into a teaching career; 
and 
‘‘(C) for followup services provided to former 
scholarship recipients during the recipients first 3 
years of teaching; or 
‘‘(2) to develop and implement effective mecha-
nisms to ensure that high-need local educational 
agencies and schools are able effectively to recruit 
highly qualified teachers.