Sec. 2. Teacher Advisory committee
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The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 1004 ( 20 U.S.C. 6304 ) the following: The Congress finds as follows: Expert teachers offer an important resource to policymakers as they can bring their expertise and perspective from the classroom to inform policy so that positive outcomes for all students will be maximized. State Teachers of the Year represent a valuable resource with a body of expert knowledge and skill about instructional practice, 21st century learning, and school functioning that can be infused into policymaking to promote better outcomes for prekindergarten, elementary, and secondary students.
State Teachers of the Year have been selected by their communities and States as models of their profession and represent every State in the Nation and every discipline and grade level. The Secretary shall establish an advisory committee, to be known as the Teacher Advisory Committee (referred to in this section as the Committee ). The duty of the Committee shall be to bring the perspective of expert teachers to policymakers regarding the implementation and impact of the Every Student Succeeds Act ( Public Law 114–95 ) and to make policy recommendations.
The membership of the Committee shall consist of not more than 10 teachers employed in a public elementary school and not more than 10 teachers employed in a public secondary school who— are past or present finalists or State Teachers of the Year, or are nominated from organizations representing teachers and have demonstrated similar evidence of expertise; have experience working with educational policy; have a demonstrated history of working as a teacher leader in the policy arena; and have submitted an application to the Secretary to serve on the Committee.
The Secretary shall compile a list of teachers submitting applications under paragraph (1)(D). The members of the Committee shall be appointed sequentially as follows: The Secretary shall appoint 4 teachers from the list. The Majority Leader of the Senate shall appoint 4 teachers from the list. The Minority Leader of the Senate shall appoint 4 teachers from the list. The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint 4 teachers from the list. The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives shall appoint 4 teachers from the list.
Not less than half of the members of the Committee shall be past or present finalists or State Teachers of the Year. The members of the Committee shall represent the diversity of the teaching workforce from multiple geographic, grade level, and specialty areas (such as English Language Learners, high ability, et al.). Each member of the Committee shall serve on the Committee for a 3-year term. The Committee shall submit to Congress and the Secretary— 2 reports per year on the monitoring carried out under subsection (c); and on a quarterly basis, updates on such monitoring.
The reports submitted under paragraph
(1)shall provide the perspective of members of the Committee and surveys of teachers in the networks represented on the Committee on not more than 3 topics per year determined by the Committee in consultation with policymakers; such topics might include— testing and assessment; the equitable distribution of teachers; the diversity of the teaching workforce; the Every Student Succeeds Act ( Public Law 114–95 ) in rural schools; and other topics of relevance determined by the Committee in consultation with policymakers and members of other Department school and family engagement fellowships (such as the School Ambassadors Program). The provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act ( Public Law 92–463 ; 5 U.S.C. App.) shall apply to the Committee. Each member of the Committee may be compensated at not to exceed the daily equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay in effect for a position at level IV of the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of title 5, United States Code, for each day during which that member is engaged in the actual performance of the duties of the Committee. While away from their homes or regular places of business in the performance of services for the Committees, members of the Committee shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in the same manner as persons employed intermittently in the Government service are allowed expenses under section 5703(b) of title 5, United States Code. The following additional requirements shall apply to the Committee: The Committee shall meet in person at least once per year for deliberation. The Committee shall be available for consultation with officials at the Department and the authorizing Committees of Congress regarding the contents of the reports submitted under subsection
(e). In this section, the term State Teacher of the Year means any person who has been recognized as a State Teacher of the Year by the Council of Chief State School Officers. Of the amounts appropriated to, and available at the discretion of, the Secretary for programmatic and administrative expenditures for fiscal years 2018 through 2022, 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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Teacher Advisory committee
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