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113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2759 
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish 
a Volunteer Teacher Advisory Committee. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 19, 2013 
Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
of 1965 to establish a Volunteer Teacher Advisory Com-
mittee. 
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 ‘‘Teachers at the Table 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. VOLUNTEER TEACHER ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.) is amended by adding after 
section 1004 (20 U.S.C. 6304) the following: 
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‘‘SEC. 1005. VOLUNTEER TEACHER ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall estab-
lish an advisory committee, to be known as the Volunteer 
Teacher Advisory Committee (referred to in this section 
as the ‘Committee’). 
‘‘(b) DUTIES AND FOCUS.—The duty of the Com-
mittee shall be to monitor the effects of this Act, on the 
ground and in classrooms, and the focus of the Committee 
shall solely be on children and families. 
‘‘(c) MEMBERSHIP.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The membership of the 
Committee shall consist of 20 public elementary 
school or secondary school classroom teachers who— 
‘‘(A) are past or present Teachers of the 
Year; 
‘‘(B) have received training, or dem-
onstrated experience, in methods of data collec-
tion, analysis, and reporting; and 
‘‘(C) have submitted an application to the 
Secretary to serve on the Committee. 
‘‘(2) LIST; APPOINTMENT.—The Secretary shall 
compile a list of teachers submitting applications 
under paragraph (1)(B). The members of the Com-
mittee shall be appointed as follows: 
‘‘(A) The Secretary shall appoint 4 teach-
ers from the list. 
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‘‘(B) The Majority Leader of the Senate 
shall appoint 4 teachers from the list. 
‘‘(C) The Minority Leader of the Senate 
shall appoint 4 teachers from the list. 
‘‘(D) The Speaker of the House of Rep-
resentatives shall appoint 4 teachers from the 
list. 
‘‘(E) The Minority Leader of the House of 
Representatives shall appoint 4 teachers from 
the list. 
‘‘(3) REPRESENTATION
REQUIREMENT.—The 
members of the Committee shall represent diverse 
and multiple geographic, grade level, and specialty 
areas. 
‘‘(4) TERM.—Each member of the Committee 
shall serve on the Committee for a 2-year term. 
‘‘(d) ANNUAL REPORT.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Committee shall sub-
mit to Congress and the Secretary— 
‘‘(A) on an annual basis, a report on the 
monitoring carried out under subsection (b); 
and 
‘‘(B) on a quarterly basis, updates on such 
monitoring. 
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‘‘(2) CONTENTS OF REPORT.—The report sub-
mitted under paragraph (1) shall include, at a min-
imum, the following: 
‘‘(A) Both quantitative and qualitative 
data that evaluate the effect of this section on 
student achievement. 
‘‘(B) The effect of this section on closing 
the achievement gap between high- and low-per-
forming students, including the students identi-
fied under section 1111(b)(2)(C)(v)(II). 
‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDS.—Of the amounts 
appropriated to, and available at the discretion of, the Sec-
retary for programmatic and administrative expenditures 
for fiscal years 2014 through 2018, a total of $500,000 
shall be used to establish and carry out the functions of 
the Committee established under this section.’’. 
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