[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2356 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2356

To amend section 1119 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
  1965 to require each State educational agency receiving assistance 
   under part A of title I of such Act to consider a teacher highly 
  qualified if the teacher is (or was) highly qualified in at least 1 
      other State and has at least 5 years of teaching experience.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 12, 2009

   Mr. Baca introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend section 1119 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
  1965 to require each State educational agency receiving assistance 
   under part A of title I of such Act to consider a teacher highly 
  qualified if the teacher is (or was) highly qualified in at least 1 
      other State and has at least 5 years of teaching experience.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    The Act may be cited as the ``Educators Achieving Reciprocity Now 
(E.A.R.N.) Act''.

SEC. 2. TEACHER RECIPROCITY.

    Section 1119(a) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 6319(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) Teacher reciprocity.--Beginning with the first day of 
        the first school year after the date of the enactment of the 
        Educators Achieving Reciprocity Now (E.A.R.N.) Act, each State 
        educational agency receiving assistance under this part shall 
        ensure that a teacher is considered highly qualified with 
        respect to an academic subject without requiring any further 
        actions, if the teacher--
                    ``(A) is (or was) considered highly qualified in 
                such academic subject in at least 1 other State; and
                    ``(B) has been teaching for at least 5 years in a 
                public or private school.''.
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