Detailed Summary

Mentoring America's Children Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to make miscellaneous changes to the Mentoring grant program under title IV that include: (1) improving school connectedness and character education among mentoring's purposes; (2) corporations, universities, and other entities among program providers; (3) requiring adult mentors to be responsible and successful; (4) suburban children in high crime areas and those involved in drugs or gangs among those most in need of mentoring; (5) limiting each mentor to no more than three children; and (6) requiring grant applicants to submit information on their plans for monitoring mentor/mentee matches and how they will satisfy the grant matching requirements that increase from 10% to 50% over the three-year term of the grant.

Excludes prior grantees from new grants unless: (1) their prior performance was satisfactory; (2) they propose to use the new grant exclusively for expanded service to a new area or population; and (3) they are able to provide a 50% match to the new grant funds.

Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) provide training and technical assistance to, and track and evaluate the performance of, grantees; and (2) arrange for research on school-based mentoring, the results of which are to be provided to the mentoring community.

Includes mentoring in ESEA programs for: (1) Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaskan Native education; (2) transitioning youth offenders into education; and (3) school violence and drug abuse prevention.

Status of the Legislation

Latest Major Action: 7/24/2007: Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

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