      CHAPTER 28--HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCES AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE
 
    SUBCHAPTER II--TEACHER QUALITY ENHANCEMENT GRANTS FOR STATES AND 
                              PARTNERSHIPS
 
Sec. 1024. Teacher recruitment grants


(a) Program authorized

    From amounts made available under section 1030(3) of this title for 
a fiscal year, the Secretary is authorized to award grants, on a 
competitive basis, to eligible applicants to enable the eligible 
applicants to carry out activities described in subsection (d) of this 
section.

(b) ``Eligible applicant'' defined

    In this subchapter, the term ``eligible applicant'' means--
        (1) an eligible State described in section 1022(b) of this 
    title; or
        (2) an eligible partnership described in section 1023(b) of this 
    title.

(c) Application

    Any eligible applicant desiring to receive a grant under this 
section shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in 
such form, and containing such information as the Secretary may require, 
including--
        (1) a description of the assessment that the eligible applicant, 
    and the other entities with whom the eligible applicant will carry 
    out the grant activities, have undertaken to determine the most 
    critical needs of the participating high-need local educational 
    agencies;
        (2) a description of the activities the eligible applicant will 
    carry out with the grant; and
        (3) a description of the eligible applicant's plan for 
    continuing the activities carried out with the grant, once Federal 
    funding ceases.

(d) Uses of funds

    Each eligible applicant receiving a grant under this section shall 
use the grant funds--
        (1)(A) to award scholarships to help students pay the costs of 
    tuition, room, board, and other expenses of completing a teacher 
    preparation program;
        (B) to provide support services, if needed to enable scholarship 
    recipients to complete postsecondary education programs; and
        (C) for followup services provided to former scholarship 
    recipients during the recipients first 3 years of teaching; or
        (2) to develop and implement effective mechanisms to ensure that 
    high need local educational agencies and schools are able to 
    effectively recruit highly qualified teachers.

(e) Service requirements

    The Secretary shall establish such requirements as the Secretary 
finds necessary to ensure that recipients of scholarships under this 
section who complete teacher education programs subsequently teach in a 
high-need local educational agency, for a period of time equivalent to 
the period for which the recipients receive scholarship assistance, or 
repay the amount of the scholarship. The Secretary shall use any such 
repayments to carry out additional activities under this section.

(Pub. L. 89-329, title II, Sec. 204, as added Pub. L. 105-244, title II, 
Sec. 201, Oct. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1627.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 1024, Pub. L. 89-329, title II, Sec. 204, Nov. 8, 
1965, 79 Stat. 1226; Pub. L. 90-575, title II, Sec. 212(b), (c), 213(a), 
Oct. 16, 1968, 82 Stat. 1036; Pub. L. 92-318, title I, 
Sec. 111(b)(2)(C), June 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 239, provided for special 
purpose grants in the college library resources program, prior to the 
general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 96-374.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1022, 1023, 1025, 1030 of 
this title.
