Bill Text: CA AB238 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: California Student Teacher Support Grant Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2023-09-07 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Newman. [AB238 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB238-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 14, 2023 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Muratsuchi |
January 13, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 44416.5 is added to the Education Code, to read:44416.5.
(a) To improve both teacher retention and recruitment in California’s public school system, it is the intent of the Legislature to create a grant program to compensate student teachers in order to help alleviate financial stress at an important time in the teacher preparation process.(a)To improve both teacher retention and recruitment in California’s public school system, it is the intent of the Legislature to create a grant program to compensate student teachers in order to help alleviate financial stress at an important time in the teacher preparation process.
(b)Subject to an appropriation of one-time funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act or another statute, the California Student Teacher Support Grant Program is hereby established under the administration of the commission to compensate teaching credential candidates during the student teaching component of the 600 hours of clinical practice that is required as part of the candidate’s teacher preparation
program.