Title 20 › Chapter CHAPTER 28— - HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCES AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - TEACHER QUALITY ENHANCEMENT › Part Part A— - Teacher Quality Partnership Grants › § 1022a
The Secretary can give competitive grants from the money under section 1022h to eligible partnerships. These grants pay for programs that prepare and support teachers, teaching residents, early childhood educators, and school leaders. To get a grant, a partnership must apply and explain its needs for preparing, training, and keeping teachers and leaders. The application must say how the program will teach strong classroom skills, how it will help teachers use research and data to improve instruction, and how it will work with other federal, state, and local programs. The application must describe available resources and how the grant money will be used and kept after the grant ends. The partnership must show an evaluation plan, say how the program will match state early-learning and academic standards, and explain how it will prepare general and special education teachers, and teachers of students with limited English. It must explain how college faculty will work in real classrooms, how the program will include a year-long supervised clinical experience, how it will support in-service professional learning, how it will collect and use teacher retention data, and how it will run an induction program that supports new teachers for at least the first two years, using trained and paid mentors and giving faculty release time or credit to participate. Grantees must use the funds to run either a teacher-preparation program, a teaching residency, or both. They may also run a leadership program. Teacher-preparation programs must change curriculum and assessment to build strong teaching skills, use research-based practices, teach methods for diverse learners, include year-long clinical learning linked to coursework, give strong mentoring, set admission goals tied to school hiring needs, and improve literacy instruction. A teaching residency must give cohort-based, graduate-level coursework (often leading to a master’s) with a guided apprenticeship alongside an experienced mentor. Residents get a one-year living stipend or salary and must agree to teach full time for at least three academic years in a high-need school named by the partnership. If a resident who received a stipend fails to meet the teaching commitment, the partnership may require repayment, with reasonable exceptions (health, military service, inability to find work in a partnership school, etc.). Leadership programs must prepare principals, superintendents, and other leaders with year-long clinical training, mentoring, induction, and recruitment strategies for underrepresented and rural leaders. Grants may also fund partnerships with public broadcast stations or digital content creators to improve teacher training. The Secretary must evaluate funded programs and publish reports. Partnership members must consult regularly while planning and carrying out activities, and any changes to grant activities need written consent from all partners. Grant funds must add to, not replace, other federal, state, or local education money.
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20 U.S.C. § 1022a
Title 20 — Education
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Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73