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The bill aims to raise educator preparation quality, transparency, and support for high-need schools — but it does so by imposing substantial new data, accountability, and administrative requirements that could increase costs, concentrate funds, risk privacy, and threaten smaller or rural preparation programs.
Teachers, school leaders, and students will likely see stronger, more evidence-based preparation and sustained professional development that can improve classroom instruction and student outcomes.
Students in high-need schools and districts (and the districts themselves) will get increased access to residency programs, partnerships, and targeted recruitment that can channel more qualified educators to underserved classrooms.
Prospective teachers, employers, and state policymakers will gain greater transparency and accountability through program-level reporting, performance metrics, public lists of low-performing programs, and transition supports for program closures.
Colleges, teacher-preparation programs, and state/local education agencies will face substantial new administrative, data-collection, and compliance costs and burdens to meet reporting, evaluation, and program standards.
Stricter accountability, reporting, and eligibility rules could lead to program sanctions or closures and loss of federal funding, disproportionately harming small, rural, or alternative-route providers and shrinking local teacher pipelines.
Emphasis on measurable pass rates, 'profession-ready' hires, and quantifiable metrics risks narrowing preparation toward checklist-style outcomes and away from broader, holistic educator development.
Based on analysis of 12 sections of legislative text.
Revises Title II to require a national advisory study, new definitions, tougher grant and evaluation rules, public program reporting, and State accountability for low‑performing educator‑preparation programs.
Introduced February 13, 2025 by Jennifer McClellan · Last progress February 13, 2025
Makes detailed changes to the Higher Education Act to strengthen how teachers, school leaders, and other educators are prepared, evaluated, and held accountable. It creates a federal advisory committee and national feasibility study, expands definitions and program eligibility, tightens grant application and evaluation requirements for educator-preparation partnerships, requires public program-level reporting, and requires States to identify, assist, and take consequences for at‑risk and low‑performing preparation programs.