Bill Text: TX HB5108 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a study and report by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board regarding a teacher apprenticeship program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-24 - Referred to Public Education [HB5108 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB5108-Introduced.html
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| By: Harrison | H.B. No. 5108 | |
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| relating to a study and report by the Texas Higher Education | ||
| Coordinating Board regarding a teacher apprenticeship program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 61.06692 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 61.06692. STUDY AND REPORT ON TEACHER APPRENTICESHIP | ||
| PROGRAM. (a) The board, with the assistance of the Texas Education | ||
| Agency and the State Board for Educator Certification, shall | ||
| conduct a study to determine the feasibility of and best practices | ||
| for allowing students to obtain certification as a classroom | ||
| teacher under an apprenticeship program. | ||
| (b) The study must provide for an alternate pathway for | ||
| teacher certification that takes less time to complete, is more | ||
| affordable, and involves more direct experience than the standard | ||
| pathway for teacher certification. | ||
| (c) In conducting the study, the board shall collaborate | ||
| with the Texas Education Agency and the State Board for Educator | ||
| Certification. | ||
| (d) Not later than December 1, 2025, the board shall submit | ||
| to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house | ||
| of representatives, the commissioner of education, and the State | ||
| Board for Educator Certification a written report that includes the | ||
| study's findings and any recommendations for legislative or other | ||
| action. | ||
| (e) This section expires January 1, 2026. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
