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SB 737 Teaching Scholarship Loan Program.

Introduced by: Emily Couric | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program. Changes the Diversity in Teaching Program to the Diversity in Teaching Initiative Awards and makes it a component of the Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program. The Program focuses on at-risk and disadvantaged students. Currently, the Program specifies only at-risk students.

The Board of Education is required to establish criteria in regulations for determining critical teacher shortage disciplines and high-poverty areas in the Commonwealth and to consult with the State Council of Higher Education in developing and implementing the Program. The criteria must reflect research findings concerning the characteristics of at-risk and disadvantaged students and the impact of socioeconomic deprivations on learning and the educational outcomes for such students. The bill provides that a paraprofessional is eligible to receive scholarships and awards to complete the undergraduate program to become a fully licensed teacher, or a program of study designed to increase his level of education or strengthen his classroom skills. Also, the bill sets criteria for the recipients of the awards. Students must repay the loans by teaching in a critical teacher shortage discipline, or in a high-poverty area, or in a school division with high concentrations of at-risk or disadvantaged students, or at grade levels or in a geographical region of the Commonwealth in where teachers who have been at-risk or disadvantaged students are under-represented. The Board of Education is required to promulgate emergency regulations, regardless of whether additional funds are appropriated for this program to implement the Program within 280 days of the enactment of this measure. This measure is identical to HB 1404, HB 1408, SB 630, and SB 652.


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