Title II — Preparing, teaching, and recruiting high quality teachers, school library media specialists, and principals

H.R. 2515 · 113th Congress · Jun 26, 2013 · Lineage

II Preparing, teaching, and recruiting high quality teachers, school library media specialists, and principals

Sec. 201 Teacher, school library media specialist, and principal training and recruiting fund

Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6601 et seq.) is amended—

(1)

in the title heading, by striking “High quality teachers and principals” and inserting “High quality teachers, school library media specialists, and principals”; and

(2)

in the part heading, by striking “Teacher and principal” and inserting “Teacher, school library media specialist, and principal”.

Sec. 202 Purpose

Section 2101(1) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6601(1)) is amended to read as follows:

“(1) increase student academic achievement through strategies such as—

“(A) improving teacher, school library media specialist, and principal quality; and

“(B) increasing the number of highly qualified teachers in the classroom, highly qualified school library media specialists in the library, and highly qualified principals and assistant principals in schools; and”

Sec. 203 State applications

Section 2112(b) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6612(b)) is amended—

(1)

in paragraph (4), by inserting “, school library media specialists,” before “and principals”; and

(2)

in paragraph (10), by inserting “, school library media specialist,” before “and paraprofessional”.

Sec. 204 State use of funds

Section 2113(c) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6613(c)) is amended—

(1)

in paragraph (4)—

(A)

in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting “highly qualified school library media specialists,” before “principals”; and

(B)

in subparagraph (B), by inserting “, highly qualified school library media specialists,” before “and principals”; and

(2)

in paragraph (6), by striking “teachers and principals” each place the term appears and inserting “teachers, school library media specialists, and principals”.

Sec. 205 Local uses of funds

Section 2123(a) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6623(a)) is amended by inserting after paragraph (8) the following:

“(9)

“(A) Developing and implementing strategies to assist in recruiting and retaining highly qualified school library media specialists; and

“(B) providing appropriate professional development for such specialists, particularly related to skills necessary to assist students to improve the students' academic achievement, including skills related to information literacy.”