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House Bill 709 |
House Author: Rose et al. |
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Effective: 6-19-09 |
Senate Sponsor: Watson |
Current law requires a school district to use at least 60 percent of grant funds awarded to the district under the educator excellence awards program to directly award classroom teachers who effectively improve student achievement as determined by meaningful, objective measures, and it restricts uses of the remaining funds to providing stipends to teachers who meet certain criteria or perform certain functions, providing performance awards to principals and other campus employees, or implementing components of a teacher award program.
House Bill 709 amends the Education Code to authorize the remainder of those grant funds to be used also to provide stipends to classroom teachers who hold advanced certification from an organization that certifies at least 2,500 teachers in the United States each year based on the teachers' satisfaction, through study, expert evaluation, self-assessment, and peer review, of high and rigorous standards for accomplished teaching.