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HR 2611 110th Congress House

Mentoring America's Children Act of 2007

Official title: To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to strengthen mentoring programs, and for other purposes.

Introduced: June 19, 2008 See on congress.gov
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CorporationsCrime and Law EnforcementDropoutsDrug abuseDrug abuse preventionDrugs and youthEconomics and Public FinanceEducational accountabilityEducational researchElementary and secondary educationElementary educationEthicsEx-offendersFamiliesFederal aid to education
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Jul 24, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Jun 7, 2007
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Jun 7, 2007
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1246)
Jun 7, 2007
Introduced in House
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 Latest action July 24, 2007

Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Mentoring America's Children Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to make miscellaneous changes to the Mentoring grant program under title IV that include: (1) improvement of school connectedness and character education among mentoring's purposes; (2) corporations, universities, and other entities among program providers; (3) a requirement that mentors help children become responsible and successful adults; (4) suburban children in high crime areas and children living in high gang involvement, drug use, or dropout areas among those most in need of mentoring; (5) limitation of each mentor to no more than three children; and (6) mandatory information on grant applicants about plans for monitoring mentor/mentee matches and the satisfaction of grant matching requirements that increase from 10% to 50% over the three-year grant term;

Allows grantees to be considered for new grants if: (1) their prior performance was satisfactory; (2) they propose to use the new grant exclusively for expanded service to a new area or population; and (3) they are able to provide a 50% match to the new grant funds.

Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) provide training and technical assistance to, and track and evaluate the performance of, grantees; and (2) arrange for research on school-based mentoring, the results of which are to be provided to the mentoring community.

Includes mentoring in ESEA programs for: (1) Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaskan Native education; (2) the transitioning of youth offenders into education; and (3) school violence and drug abuse prevention.

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