[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5915 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5915

    To require that the Teacher Incentive Fund of the Department of 
      Education and other programs to support merit-based teacher 
  compensation systems award its grant funds to support compensation 
  systems that are based primarily or exclusively on student learning 
     gains or maintenance of high student learning gains, or both.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 2006

  Mr. Kennedy of Minnesota (for himself and Mr. Case) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                             the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require that the Teacher Incentive Fund of the Department of 
      Education and other programs to support merit-based teacher 
  compensation systems award its grant funds to support compensation 
  systems that are based primarily or exclusively on student learning 
     gains or maintenance of high student learning gains, or both.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Rewarding Student Achievement Act''.

SEC. 2. SECRETARY OF EDUCATION TO SUPPORT MERIT-BASED TEACHER 
              COMPENSATION SYSTEMS THAT ARE BASED PRIMARILY OR 
              EXCLUSIVELY ON STUDENT LEARNING GAINS OR MAINTENANCE OF 
              STUDENT LEARNING GAINS, OR BOTH.

    In making awards to support merit-based teacher compensation 
systems, under the Teacher Incentive Fund or any other grant program to 
support merit-based teacher compensation systems using funds available 
pursuant to subpart 1 of part D of title V of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965, the Secretary of Education shall 
ensure that, for each fiscal year, all of the funds so awarded are 
awarded to support merit-based compensation systems that are based 
primarily (at least 50 percent) or exclusively on student learning 
gains or maintenance of student learning gains, or both.
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