[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 769 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 769

 To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ensure 
  that participants in the Troops to Teachers program may teach at a 
                       range of eligible schools.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 6, 2007

 Mr. Salazar (for himself, Mr. Chambliss, Ms. Collins, and Mr. Allard) 
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 ensure 
  that participants in the Troops to Teachers program may teach at a 
                       range of eligible schools.

    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 ``Troops to Teachers Improvement Act 
of 2007''.

SEC. 2. PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE UNDER TROOPS 
              TO TEACHERS PROGRAM.

    Section 2304 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 6674) is amended in subsection (a)(1)(B) by striking ``for 
not less than 3 school years'' and all that follows through the period 
at the end and inserting the following: ``for not less than 3 school 
years, to begin the school year after obtaining that certification or 
licensing, with a high-need local educational agency or public charter 
school, as such terms are defined in section 2101 or, if there is no 
high-need local educational agency or public charter school for which 
the member is qualified to teach within a 50-mile radius of the 
member's residence, then under circumstances covered by section 
2302(b)(2).''.
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