Creates new federal grants to help public schools hire and keep teaching assistants.
This bill would create a new federal grant program to help public elementary schools, secondary schools, and preschool programs find and keep paraprofessionals, also known as teaching assistants. States would get money from the federal government and then give it to local schools and agencies to pay for training, better wages, and bonuses for these important educators. This would be a new program, as no dedicated federal grant currently exists for this purpose.
Currently, there is no specific federal grant program to help states and local schools recruit and keep paraprofessionals. If this bill becomes law, the Secretary of Education would create a new grant program to provide federal money to states, which would then distribute it to local schools and agencies for these purposes, starting in the government's budget year 2026.
HR 5476 · 119th Congress · September 18, 2025 · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 9/10
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