Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF1348

Establishing a pilot program to allow school districts in collaboration with
public post-secondary institutions to offer undergraduate and graduate teacher
training opportunities addressing the needs of different types of schools,
students and teachers; specifying school district eligibility, requiring the
program to place teacher education students in elementary and secondary
classrooms; providing for participating school district teacher training model
selection and for post-secondary and public school teacher exchanges; specifying
the application process; providing for selection of program participants by the
commissioner of children, families and learning, requiring the commissioner to
provide start up costs to participating sites, limit; requiring participating
post-secondary institutions to provide the instructional costs of teacher
education students and authorizing the charging of student tuition; requiring
the commissioner to contract with an independent qualified expert to evaluate
the impact of the pilot program on teacher efficacy and student performance and
report to the legislature by a certain date (ra)