[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2060 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2060

    To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to 
           establish a Volunteer Teacher Advisory Committee.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 18, 2007

 Mr. Feingold (for himself, Mr. Lieberman, Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. Dodd, and 
  Mr. Obama) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to 
           establish a Volunteer Teacher Advisory Committee.

    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 ``Teachers at the Table Act''.

SEC. 2. VOLUNTEER TEACHER ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

    The matter preceding part A of title I of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.) is amended by 
adding after section 1004 (20 U.S.C. 6304) the following:

``SEC. 1005. VOLUNTEER TEACHER ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

    ``(a) Establishment.--The Secretary shall establish an advisory 
committee, to be known as the Volunteer Teacher Advisory Committee 
(hereafter in this section referred to as the `Committee').
    ``(b) Duties and Focus.--The duty of the Committee shall be to 
monitor the effects of this Act, on the ground and in classrooms, and 
the focus of the Committee shall solely be on children and families.
    ``(c) Membership.--
            ``(1) In general.--The membership of the Committee shall 
        consist of 20 public elementary school or secondary school 
        classroom teachers who--
                    ``(A) are past or present Teachers of the Year; and
                    ``(B) who have submitted an application to the 
                Secretary to serve on the Committee.
            ``(2) List; appointment.--The Secretary shall compile a 
        list of teachers submitting applications under paragraph 
        (1)(B). The members of the Committee shall be appointed as 
        follows:
                    ``(A) The Secretary shall appoint 4 teachers from 
                the list.
                    ``(B) The Majority Leader of the Senate shall 
                appoint 4 teachers from the list.
                    ``(C) The Minority Leader of the Senate shall 
                appoint 4 teachers from the list.
                    ``(D) The Speaker of the House of Representatives 
                shall appoint 4 teachers from the list.
                    ``(E) The Minority Leader of the House of 
                Representatives shall appoint 4 teachers from the list.
            ``(3) Representation requirement.--The members of the 
        Committee shall represent diverse and multiple geographic, 
        grade level, and specialty areas.
            ``(4) Term.--Each member of the Committee shall serve on 
        the Committee for a 2-year term.
    ``(d) Annual Report.--The Committee shall submit to Congress and 
the Secretary--
            ``(1) on an annual basis, a report on the monitoring 
        carried out under subsection (a); and
            ``(2) on a quarterly basis, updates on that monitoring.
    ``(e) Authorization of Funds.--Of the amounts appropriated to, and 
available at the discretion of, the Secretary for programmatic and 
administrative expenditures for fiscal years 2008 through 2012, a total 
of $500,000 shall be used to establish and carry out the functions of 
the Committee established under this section.''.
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