Delaware House Bill 430 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-2)
Status: Passed on September 9 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-09-09 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This Act creates a statewide Grow Your Own Educator Program to improve recruitment, retention, and diversity of educators in Delaware public schools. The Program establishes a competitive grant process to be administered by the Department of Education. Any Delaware reorganized school district or charter school can apply for a grant to establish its own unique Grow your Own Educator Program. Subject to funding grants will be awarded on a 2-year basis. Applicants must provide a detailed explanation how their proposed Program will be run, including any partnerships with institutions of higher education and whether the Program anticipates providing last dollar tuition and related educational financial assistance to candidates accepted into their Program who commit to teaching a minimum of 3 years, upon licensure, in the Applicants school district or charter school. Any awarded grant money must be used to initiate and run the Program. In evaluating applications that meet the Departments criteria, if funding is limited, the Department will give additional weight to Applicants that prioritize recruiting candidates from high-need schools, placing teacher candidates in high-need schools, develop programs that support teacher professionals, including bilingual candidates and those without bachelors degrees, and leverage apprenticeship and year-long teacher residency models. The Department will annually provide Program data to the Senate and House Education Committees including the number of grant applications, the number of grants awarded, names of districts and charter schools receiving grants, and retention rate for educator candidates hired by the district or charter school.

An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Grow Your Own Educator Program.

Rep. Kimberly Williams [D]	Sen. Laura Sturgeon [D]	Sen. Elizabeth Lockman [D]	Rep. Michael Smith [R]
Rep. Sherae'a Moore [D]	Rep. William Bush [D]	Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]	Sen. David Sokola [D]
Sen. Jack Walsh [D]	Rep. Ruth Briggs King [R]	Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]	Rep. Eric Morrison [D]
Rep. Edward Osienski [D]

2022-07-01 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-06-14 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-09-09		Signed by Governor
2022-07-01	Senate	Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
2022-06-22	Senate	Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
2022-06-14	Senate	Assigned to Education Committee in Senate
2022-06-14	House	Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT
2022-06-08	House	Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 6 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits
2022-05-17	House	Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109531
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=109531&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB430
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#53420
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#53955