Sec. 4. Establishing state-of-the-art principal induction programs
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Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 6601 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: From the amounts made available to carry out this section, the Secretary may make grants, on a competitive basis, to States and eligible local educational agencies for the purpose of developing state-of-the-art principal induction programs. In this section, the term eligible local educational agency means— a high-need local educational agency (as such term is defined in section 2102(3)); or a partnership consisting of a high-need local educational agency and— an institution of higher education; a professional organization that works with and for principals; or any other nonprofit education organization.
A State or an eligible local educational agency that receives a grant under subsection
(a)shall use the funds made available through the grant to develop a state-of-the-art principal induction program that— provides new principals a minimum of 3 years of extensive, high-quality, comprehensive induction into the field of school administration; and includes— structured mentoring from highly qualified master or mentor principals who are certified, have school administration experience in a school similar to the school of the new principal, and are trained to mentor new principals; at least 90 minutes each week for a new principal to carry out administrative and leadership tasks under the director of a master or mentor principal; regular observation by a master or mentor principal of the new principal in the new principal’s school; observation by the new principal of the master or mentor principal’s classroom; observation by new principals of at least 3 principals and feedback (that uses research-validated benchmarks of leadership skills and standards that are developed with input from principals) at least 4 times each school year by multiple evaluators, including master and mentor principals; paid release time for the master or mentor principal for mentoring, or salary supplements for mentoring new principals at a ratio of one full-time mentor to every 12 new principals; a transition year for new principals to the school that includes a reduced workload for such principals; and a standards-based assessment, which may include examination of practice and a measure of gains in student learning, of every new principal to determine whether the principal should move forward in the school administration profession. . The table of contents for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 2441 the following: Part E—Establishing State-of-the-Art Principal Induction Programs Sec. 2501. Competitive grants. .
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