‘‘(3) a nonprofit organization (such as a State 
principal association); 
‘‘(4) an institution of higher education; or 
‘‘(5) a partnership or consortium that includes 
at least one of the entities described in paragraphs 
(1) through (4). 
‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—To 
carry out this section, there are authorized to be appro-
priated $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2014 and such sums 
as may be necessary for each of the 5 succeeding fiscal 
years.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
is amended by redesignating the item relating to part I 
of title I as relating to part J and by inserting before such 
item the following: 
‘‘PART I—INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP 
‘‘Sec. 1851. Competitive grants.’’. 
SEC. 4. ESTABLISHING STATE-OF-THE-ART PRINCIPAL IN-
DUCTION PROGRAMS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title II of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6601 et 
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘PART E—ESTABLISHING STATE-OF-THE-ART 
PRINCIPAL INDUCTION PROGRAMS 
‘‘SEC. 2501. COMPETITIVE GRANTS. 
‘‘(a) GRANTS.—From the amounts made available to 
carry out this section, the Secretary may make grants, on 
a competitive basis, to States and eligible local educational 
agencies for the purpose of developing state-of-the-art 
principal induction programs. 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY.—In 
this section, the term ‘eligible local educational agency’ 
means— 
‘‘(1) a high-need local educational agency (as 
such term is defined in section 2102(3)); or 
‘‘(2) a partnership consisting of a high-need 
local educational agency and— 
‘‘(A) an institution of higher education; 
‘‘(B) a professional organization that 
works with and for principals; or 
‘‘(C) any other nonprofit education organi-
zation. 
‘‘(c) USE OF FUNDS.—A State or an eligible local 
educational agency that receives a grant under subsection 
(a) shall use the funds made available through the grant 
to develop a state-of-the-art principal induction program 
that— 
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‘‘(1) provides new principals a minimum of 3 
years of extensive, high-quality, comprehensive in-
duction into the field of school administration; and 
‘‘(2) includes— 
‘‘(A) structured mentoring from highly 
qualified master or mentor principals who are 
certified, have school administration experience 
in a school similar to the school of the new 
principal, and are trained to mentor new prin-
cipals; 
‘‘(B) at least 90 minutes each week for a 
new principal to carry out administrative and 
leadership tasks under the director of a master 
or mentor principal; 
‘‘(C) regular observation by a master or 
mentor principal of the new principal in the 
new principal’s school; 
‘‘(D) observation by the new principal of 
the master or mentor principal’s classroom; 
‘‘(E) observation by new principals of at 
least 3 principals and feedback (that uses re-
search-validated benchmarks of leadership skills 
and standards that are developed with input 
from principals) at least 4 times each school 
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year by multiple evaluators, including master 
and mentor principals; 
‘‘(F) paid release time for the master or 
mentor principal for mentoring, or salary sup-
plements for mentoring new principals at a 
ratio of one full-time mentor to every 12 new 
principals; 
‘‘(G) a transition year for new principals to 
the school that includes a reduced workload for 
such principals; and 
‘‘(H) a standards-based assessment, which 
may include examination of practice and a 
measure of gains in student learning, of every 
new principal to determine whether the prin-
cipal should move forward in the school admin-
istration profession.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
2441 the following: 
‘‘PART E—ESTABLISHING STATE-OF-THE-ART PRINCIPAL INDUCTION 
PROGRAMS 
‘‘Sec. 2501. Competitive grants.’’. 
Æ 
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