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HR 414 115th Congress House

Encourage our Educators Act

Official title: To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow an individual to qualify for both teacher loan forgiveness and public service loan forgiveness, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 17, 2017 See on congress.gov
Education Education programs fundingHigher educationStudent aid and college costsTeaching, teachers, curricula
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Jan 10, 2017
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 Latest action January 10, 2017

Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Encourage our Educators Act

This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to modify provisions of the teacher loan forgiveness program.

Specifically, the legislation reduces from five to three years the period of service a full-time teacher must complete consecutively to be eligible for forgiveness under the Federal Family Education Loan or Direct Loan program. It also increases from $5,000 to $17,500 the amount of available loan forgiveness for an elementary or secondary school teacher in any subject. (Currently, forgiveness up to $17,500 is only available for a full-time secondary school math or science teacher or for a special education teacher.)

The bill eliminates the prohibition on counting the same qualifying service for both the teacher and the public service loan forgiveness programs.

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Torres, Norma J.
California · May 17, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 414: Encourage our Educators Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-414/
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