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2023 SESSION
SB 1118 Teachers; employment, English as a Second Language Incentive Reward Program and Fund established.
Introduced by: Ghazala F. Hashmi | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Employment of teachers; English as a Second Language Incentive Reward Program and Fund; established. Provides that each local school board shall adopt employment policies and practices designed to promote the employment of highly qualified teachers to effectively serve the educational needs of students who are English language learners, including providing financial support for teachers seeking and obtaining an endorsement in English as a second language pre-kindergarten through grade 12. The bill also establishes the English as a Second Language Incentive Reward Program and Fund for the purpose of awarding incentive grants to public school teachers in the Commonwealth who obtain an endorsement in English as a second language pre-kindergarten through grade 12. The bill provides that the Board of Education shall award to any teacher who obtains such endorsement an initial incentive grant of $5,000 and a subsequent incentive grant of $2,500 each year for the life of the endorsement, with such incentive grants to resume upon renewal of the endorsement. Finally, the bill directs the Board to establish such guidelines as it deems necessary for the administration of the Program and to establish procedures for the award of such incentive grants in the event that the moneys in the Fund are not sufficient to award each eligible teacher the appropriate award amount.
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HISTORY
- 01/10/23 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102437D
- 01/10/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/25/23 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- 02/02/23 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/23 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/02/23 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/23 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/06/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/23 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/23 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/10/23 House: Read first time
- 02/10/23 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/13/23 House: Failed to report (defeated) in Education (10-Y 12-N)