US Congress House Bill 3405 (Prior Session Legislation)

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March 29 2012 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Increased Student Achievement Through Increased Student Support Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive, renewable, five-year grants to partnerships between low-income local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools offering graduate programs in school counseling, social work, or psychology to increase the number of program graduates employed by low-income LEAs. Defines "low-income LEAs" as those that: (1) serve students at least 20% of which are from low-income families; (2) have ratios of school counselors, social workers, and psychologists to students that fall at least 10% below specified target ratios; and (3) have been identified as needing improvement or corrective action or include at least one school identified as needing improvement, corrective action, or restructuring under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Allows the use of grant funds to: (1) provide program graduate students with field training at partnership LEA schools; (2) contribute to program graduates' salaries at such schools for up to three years after they graduate; (3) increase the number of school counselors, social workers, and psychologists per student, and from underrepresented backgrounds, in such schools; (4) enhance the capacity of partnership graduate schools to train such professionals; (5) develop course work designed to facilitate such graduates' service to low-income LEAs and at-risk students; and (6) provide tuition credits to such graduate students and student loan forgiveness to program graduates employed as school counselors, social workers, or psychologists by low-income LEAs for at least five consecutive years. Directs the Secretary to establish a program providing student loan forgiveness to non-participants in this Act's grant program who have been employed for at least five consecutive years as school counselors, social workers, or psychologists by low-income LEAs. Requires the Secretary to identify a formula for future use in designating regions as eligible for benefit programs due to their having a shortage of such school personnel.

Increased Student Achievement Through Increased Student Support Act

Rep Towns, Edolphus	Rep Baca, Joe	Rep Brown, Corrine	Rep Carson, Andre
Rep Cohen, Steve	Rep Connolly, Gerald E. "Gerry"	Rep Conyers, John, Jr.	Rep Filner, Bob
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D.	Rep Holt, Rush D.	Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr.	Rep Loebsack, David
Rep Lofgren, Zoe	Rep McCarthy, Carolyn	Rep McCollum, Betty	Rep Meeks, Gregory W.
Rep Moore, Gwen	Rep Napolitano, Grace F.	Rep Owens, William L.	Rep Polis, Jared
Rep Price, David E.	Rep Roybal-Allard, Lucille	Rep Ryan, Tim	Rep Sanchez, Linda T.
Rep Schakowsky, Janice D.	Rep Stark, Fortney Pete

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-29	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
2012-03-29	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
2011-11-14	House	Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN03405:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr3405ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr3405ih.pdf