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Bill Introduced: H.R.4034 Mentor-Mentee Teen Pregnancy Reduction Act of 2012

To amend title V of the Social Security Act to provide grants for school-based mentoring programs for at risk teenage girls to prevent and reduce teen pregnancy, and to provide student loan forgiveness for mentors participating in such programs.

Bill Introduced: S.2106 Josh Miller Helping Everyone Access Responsive Treatment in Schools Act of 2012

A bill to establish a grant program for automated external defibrillators in elementary schools and secondary schools.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3990 Encouraging Innovation and Effective Teachers Act

To encourage effective teachers in the classrooms of the United States and innovative education programs in our Nation's schools.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3989 Student Success Act

To support State and local accountability for public education, inform parents of their schools' performance, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: S.2098 Student Right to Know Before You Go Act

A bill to support statewide individual-level integrated postsecondary education data systems, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3915 To consolidate programs at the Department of Justice and enact the CAMPUS Safety Act of 2011.

To consolidate programs at the Department of Justice and enact the CAMPUS Safety Act of 2011.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3896 To amend section 8007 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to extend eligibility for emergency and modernization grants to local educational agencies in which at least 10 percent of the property in each such agency is nontaxable due to the presence of the Federal Government, and for other purposes.

To amend section 8007 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to extend eligibility for emergency and modernization grants to local educational agencies in which at least 10 percent of the property in each such agency is nontaxable due to the presence of the Federal Government, and for other purposes.