Baca #7
Allows uses of funds to train teachers to use supplemental multilingual computer software to train teachers to teach limited English proficient students. (REVISED)

Baca #8
Allows for a bonus award to teachers who achieve technology certification according to Computing Technology Industry Association and the Information Technology Training Association.

Fattah #3
Teacher Quality Enhancement Grants. Adds language directing States to reduce the gap between higher income districts and lower income districts, in terms of the percentage of classes taught by highly qualified teachers.

Gingrey #2
Adds language to ensure that teachers are able to understand scientifically based research and its applicability; requires partnership grant applications to contain a certification from the partner local educational agency stating that it will ?directly benefit? from the proposed grant activities; ensures that partnership grant funds are used onl-y to supplement, not supplant, other federal, State, and local funds that would otherwise be used for teacher preparation activities, and requires States to include average raw score data in their reports.

Honda #4
Partnership Grants. Provides for ?Mentoring Programs? under allowable uses for Partnership Grants under section 203. Such programs would: establish and implement minimum qualifications for mentors; provide training an stipends for mentors; provide mentoring programs for teachers in their first three years of teaching; provide regular and ongoing opportunities for mentors and mentees to observe each other?s teaching methods in classroom settings during the school day; establishes an evaluation and accountability plan for activities; report to the Secretary on an annual basis regarding the partnership?s progress.

Jackson-Lee #6
Provides that the Secretary shall use any such repayments to provide computer equipment for the neediest institutions in school districts: that serve not fewer than 10,000 children from families with incomes below the poverty line; or for which not less than 20% of the children served by th agency are from families with incomes below the poverty line.

Millender-McDonald #1
Partnership Grants. Amends the applications used regarding partnerships by requiring the following additional information be provided concerning: well-designed clinical practice to develop effective teaching skills; entry-level teaching support in mentored induction programs for teachers; and ongoing assessment of teacher preparation effectiveness that can be used to improve teacher preparation programs. (REVISED)

Meeks #5
Inserts language that provides grants to educational entities that choose to conduct outreach and coordination services with inner-city or rural secondary schools. This partnership, between education entities and inner-city or rural secondary schools, will focus on encouraging students in these schools to pursue teaching as a career. (REVISED)

* Summaries derived from information submitted by the amendment sponsors.