; (B) submit an application to participate in the rural educator graduate fellowship program at such time and in such manner as the Secretary shall determine; and (C) sign and submit to the Secretary, at the time that such application is submitted, a written contract as described in section 259A, which shall include a commitment to serve through full-time employment at an eligible service employer for the period of obligated service. (c) Eligible service employers An individual shall be considered to be serving, through full-time employment at an eligible service employer, as required under section 259A(b)(1)(B)(iv), if the individual is employed full-time in a public elementary school or secondary school that is served by a local educational agency that is eligible to receive assistance under part B of title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. (d) Placement assistance The Secretary shall assist the recipient of a rural educator graduate fellowship in learning about placement opportunities in eligible service employers in such manner as the Secretary determines appropriate. . B Loan forgiveness for rural educators 111. Loan forgiveness for educators teaching in rural local educational agencies (a) Part b loans Section 428J of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1078–10 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (b)(1), by inserting subject to subsection (c)(4), before has been employed