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Senate Bill 934 |
Senate Author: Kolkhorst et al. |
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Effective: 5-28-15 |
House Sponsor: Farney |
Senate Bill 934 amends the Education Code to require the commissioner of education to develop mathematics achievement academies for teachers who provide mathematics instruction to students at the kindergarten or first, second, or third grade level. The bill requires the commissioner to adopt criteria for selecting teachers who may attend a mathematics achievement academy and, in doing so, to require granting a priority to teachers employed at a campus at which 50 percent or more of the students enrolled are educationally disadvantaged and to provide a process through which a teacher not employed at such a campus may attend the academy if the academy has available space and the employing school district pays the costs of attendance. The bill entitles a teacher who attends an academy to receive a stipend in the amount determined by the commissioner from funds appropriated for that purpose. The bill requires regional education service centers, on request of the commissioner, to assist the commissioner and the Texas Education Agency with activities relating to the development and operation of mathematics achievement academies.