What does the ESEA say about teacher training?

The law itself does not outline a specific condition or
set of requirements in accordance to teacher training.  The law does speak though to
government funding of higher institutions that are to dedicate themselves to education,
in terms of research on education.  It is here where teacher training would be
established and honed in as a craft.  At the same time, the law specifically states that
there will be funding to state education departments, which are also intended to see to
the issue of teacher training.  The law understood that government's role is to increase
access to and the quality of education.  It is not meant to have government control
these element.  This is why the law allows government funding of school libraries, but
is explicit in stating that the federal government will not control or determine what
resources are housed in these libraries.  In this definition of federalism, the law
treats the issue of teacher training, as something that local realms will define and
articulate.