June 13, 2003

House Panel Approves Stricter Rules for Teacher-Training Programs

By JULIANNE BASINGER

Programs that train teachers would have to comply with stricter accountability provisions under a bill approved last week by members of a U.S. House of Representatives education subcommittee, marking the beginning of legislation this year to reauthorize the Higher Education Act.

A second bill approved by the lawmakers, HR 438, would provide greater forgiveness of student-loan debt to some mathematics, science, and special-education teachers.

The teacher-education bill, HR 2211,

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