3.0.0 3559 2023-01-11T13:19:45Z 2023-01-11T13:19:45Z Senate S S 2010-06-30 111 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2010-06-30T23:53:10Z 2010-06-30 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2010-06-30 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5702) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2010-06-30 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress D000388 Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] CHRISTOPHER DODD D CT JOHN N Education Crime prevention Drug, alcohol, tobacco use Education of the disadvantaged Education programs funding Elementary and secondary education Juvenile crime and gang violence Minority education Performance measurement Teaching, teachers, curricula Violent crime Education 00 2010-06-30 Introduced in Senate 2010-08-27T15:04:07Z Mentoring America's Children Act of 2009 [sic] - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to make miscellaneous changes to the Mentoring grant program under title IV that include: (1) improvement of school connectedness and character education among mentoring's purposes; (2) corporations, universities, foster care group homes, and other entities among program providers; (3) a requirement that mentors help children become responsible and successful adults; (4) foster youth, children with an incarcerated parent, suburban children in high crime areas, and children living in high gang involvement, drug use, dropout, or youth suicide areas among those most in need of mentoring; (5) children's participation in internships as a program goal; (6) mandatory assurances by grant applicants that each mentor will be assigned to no more than three children; (7) mandatory information by grant applicants about plans for monitoring mentor/mentee matches and the satisfaction of grant matching requirements that increase from 10% to 50% over the 3-year grant term; and (8) entities serving foster children or children living in high youth suicide areas as priority grant recipients.

Allows grantees to be considered for new grants if: (1) their prior performance was satisfactory; (2) they propose to use the new grant exclusively for expanded service to a new area or population; and (3) they are able to provide a 50% match to the new grant funds.

Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) provide training and technical assistance to grantees, and track and evaluate their performance; and (2) arrange for research on school-based mentoring, the results of which are to be provided to the mentoring community.

Includes mentoring in ESEA programs for: (1) Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaskan Native education; (2) the transitioning of youth offenders into education; and (3) school violence and drug abuse prevention.

]]> Mentoring America's Children Act of 2009 Display Title Mentoring America's Children Act of 2009 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to strengthen mentoring programs, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Mentoring America's Children Act of 2009 Introduced in Senate 2010-06-30T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s3559is/xml/BILLS-111s3559is.xml 2010-06-30 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.