3.0.0 1716 2023-01-11T13:21:59Z 2023-01-11T13:21:59Z Senate S S 2011-10-17 112 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2011-10-17T19:24:31Z 2011-10-17 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2011-10-17 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT N Education Academic performance and assessments Education of the disadvantaged Education programs funding Elementary and secondary education Minority education Special education Teaching, teachers, curricula Education 00 2011-10-17 Introduced in Senate 2011-10-26T15:39:01Z Assuring Successful Students through Effective Teaching Act of 2011 - Amends the school improvement program under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to define "highly qualified teachers" as those that have: (1) completed a state-approved traditional or alternative teacher preparation program, where available; or (2) passed a rigorous state-approved teacher performance assessment and obtained full state certification.

Defines "effective teachers" as highly qualified teachers that demonstrate certain qualities and have done so for at least three years, as measured by a comprehensive teacher evaluation and support system developed by the relevant local educational agency (LEA).

Requires LEAs to ensure that poor, minority, disabled, and limited English proficient students are taught by highly qualified and effective teachers at similar rates and ratios as other students.

Requires states to provide additional supports to LEAs that fall short of that goal to assist them in making continuous progress towards it. Includes among those supports: (1) stronger teacher recruitment efforts, (2) efforts to improve teacher retention, and (3) ongoing teacher training.

Requires LEAs to ensure that: (1) all their teachers are highly qualified no later than three years after this Act's enactment, (2) that none of their public schools has a disproportionate percentage of teachers neither highly qualified nor effective, and (3) teachers who are not highly qualified are closely mentored and overseen by an effective mentor teacher who is certified and effective in the mentored teacher's subject area.

]]> Assuring Successful Students through Effective Teaching Act of 2011 Display Title Assuring Successful Students through Effective Teaching Act of 2011 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve teacher quality and increase access to effective teachers. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Assuring Successful Students through Effective Teaching Act of 2011 Introduced in Senate 2011-10-17T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s1716is/xml/BILLS-112s1716is.xml 2011-10-17 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.