3.0.0 2753 2023-01-11T13:25:43Z 2023-01-11T13:25:43Z Senate S S 2014-07-31 113 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2014-07-31T20:50:04Z 2014-07-31 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2014-07-31 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress T000464 Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT] Jon Tester D MT N Education Child health Education of the disadvantaged Education programs funding Elementary and secondary education Higher education Mental health Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations Student aid and college costs Teaching, teachers, curricula Wages and earnings Education 00 2014-07-31 Introduced in Senate 2014-10-06T18:27:43Z Increasing Student Achievement by Increasing 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 whom are from families with incomes below the federal poverty level; and (2) have no more than 1 school counselor for every 275 students, 1 school psychologist for every 770 students, and 1 school social worker for every 440 students.

Allows the use of grant funds to:

  • provide program graduate students with field training at partnership LEA schools;
  • contribute to program graduates' salaries at such schools for up to three years after they graduate;
  • increase the number of school counselors, social workers, and psychologists per student, and from underrepresented backgrounds, in such schools;
  • enhance the capacity of partnership graduate schools to train such professionals;
  • develop course work designed to facilitate such graduates' service to low-income LEAs and at-risk students; and
  • 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.

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