Better Education for Students and Teachers Act

Better Education for Students and Teachers Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise title I as Better Results for Disadvantaged Children (currently Helping Disadvantaged Children Meet High Standards). Revises title I part A with respect to: (1) yearly testing and assessments of student performance; (2) Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) standards; (3) identification of schools for improvement and corrective actions; (4) public school choice options under certain conditions; (5) reporting to parents and the public on school performance and teacher quality; (6) State reservation of funds for school improvement; (7) formulas relating to Basic, Concentration, Targeted, and Education Finance Incentive Grants; and (8) eligibility requirements for schoolwide programs. Revises title I to: (1) reauthorize the William F. Goodling Even Start Family Literacy Program; (2) establish Reading First and Early Reading First initiative programs; (3) reauthorize 21st Century Learning Centers; and (4) establish a program for Comprehensive School Reform.Dropout Prevention Act - Establishes a program for School Dropout Prevention.Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to revise and reauthorize provisions for education for homeless children and youth.Revises title II, Teachers, to: (1) replace the current Eisenhower Professional Development and Class-Size Reduction programs; and (2) establish a part A Teacher Quality formula grant program for States and LEAs to support various similar activities to improve elementary and secondary school teaching. Sets forth requirements relating to such State and LEA activities and performance objectives. Includes among authorized national teacher activities, administered by the Secretary, support for: (1) professional development for school leaders; (2) teachers seeking advanced certification through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; (3) the Troops-to-Teachers program recruiting military retirees into teaching; and (4) a program supporting transition to teaching by mid-career professionals. Establishes a part B Mathematics and Science Partnerships program involving SEAs, higher education mathematics or science departments, and LEAs. Reauthorizes the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Math and Science Education. Establishes the Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology grants program. Replaces various current ESEA title III technology for education programs with a title II part C State and Local Programs for Technology Use in Classrooms, with formula grants to States to provide competitive grants to LEAs.Teacher Mobility Act - Establishes a National Panel on Portability of Teacher Pensions and Credentials.Sets forth as a new title III, Education for Limited English Proficient and Recent Immigrant Pupils (transferring and revising specified current law). Revises and reauthorizes the Bilingual Education Act to: (1) consolidate certain programs; (2) require yearly assessment of English proficiency of students served; (3) eliminate a funding cap for non-bilingual programs under instructional services grants; and (4) set priorities in making grants to certain applicants. Reauthorizes the Foreign Language Assistance and Emergency Immigrant Education programs.Revises title IV, Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities, to: (1) authorize assistance for hiring drug prevention and school safety program coordinators in schools; (2) require participating schools to assess drug and violence problems, set measurable goals, use a research-based prevention framework for programs, and conduct evaluations; (3) include among uses of funds drug testing, locker searches, and training in threat and crisis management and identification and response to troubled and violent youth. Redesignates current ESEA requirements that States enact and enforce laws mandating a one-year school expulsion for any student bringing a weapon to school.Amends the National Child Protection Act of 1993 to allow certain funds to be used for nationwide background checks of employees.Pro-Children Act of 2001 - Redesignates current ESEA prohibitions against smoking within any indoor facility used for providing education or related services.Sets forth as title V, Public School Choice and Flexibility, and eliminates current parts B and C provisions for Women's Educational Equity and for Assistance to Address School Dropout Problems. Sets forth part A, Public School Choice, to: (1) reauthorize provisions for public Charter Schools and for Magnet Schools assistance; and (2) establish a Public School Choice program. Sets forth part B, Flexibility, to redesignate and reauthorize certain ESEA provisions, including: (1) waivers of requirements; and (2) Innovative Education Program Strategies.Education Flexibility Partnership Act of 2001 - Reauthorizes, under part B Flexibility, ESEA provisions for Education Flexibility Partnerships.Rural Education Achievement Program - Reauthorizes, under part B Flexibility, ESEA provisions for a Rural Education Initiative, with grants for small rural schools and for low-income and rural schools.Access to High Standards Act - Establishes as ESEA title V part E, Advanced Placement (AP) Programs to provide assistance to increase the access of low-income students to AP high school courses and AP tests to earn advanced placement and credits at institutions of higher education.Sets forth a new title VI, Parental Involvement and Accountability, authorizing Parental Information and Resource Centers (currently under the Goals 200: Educate America Act). Sets forth part B, Improving Academic Achievement, which: (1) authorizes various education performance awards for States and schools; and (2) penalizes States that fail to achieve progress in certain educational assessments by reducing administrative funds under ESEA formula grant programs.Reauthorizes and revises title VII Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native Education.Repeals the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, and the following ESEA titles: (1) X, Programs of National Significance, including the Fund for the Improvement of Education and programs for gifted and talented children, arts in education, inexpensive book distribution, civic education, Ellender fellowships, urban and rural education assistance, and the national writing project; (2) XI, Coordinated Services; (3) XII, School Facilities Infrastructure Improvement, a program of grants for school construction and renovation; (4) XIII, Support and Assistance Programs to Improve Education, including comprehensive regional assistance centers, the national diffusion network, Eisenhower regional mathematics and science education consortia, and technology-based technical assistance; and (5) XIV, some general provisions.Authorizes an independent evaluation grant to the Board on Testing and Assessment of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences.