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HB 2689 Minorities in Teaching Program.

Introduced by: Mary T. Christian | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY:

Minorities in Teaching Program. Makes the Minorities in Teaching Program a part of the Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program and reconciles current law to the provisions in Item 135 B of the 1996-1998 Appropriation Act. The bill requires scholarship recipients to repay the loan by teaching one year for each year in which they were beneficiaries of a loan in subject areas where there is a critical shortage of teachers (i.e., science, foreign languages, special education or physics); in school divisions with high concentrations of at-risk students; in elementary and middle school grade levels, or in geographical regions of the state where minority and male teachers are under-represented.

The Minorities in Teaching Program was established by the 1996 General Assembly to increase the numbers of minorities in the teaching profession. Concomitantly, the Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program was established in the Appropriation Act of 1996-1998 to provide certain eligibility criteria for scholarship recipients and funding in the amount of $600,000 for the biennium for the scholarship program and to complement the Minorities in Teaching Program. Currently, there is no requirement that scholarship recipients repay the loan or teach in critical shortage areas or underserved regions of the state. The bill establishes a means by which scholarship recipients may repay the loan through teaching service in the aforementioned areas and, by so doing, help the State address the shortage of certain teachers and meet the educational needs of children.

This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee Studying the Status and Needs of African-American Males in Virginia.


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