Bill Text: TX HB4615 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to certain performance-based incentives and teacher education and development initiatives administered by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-10 - Left pending in committee [HB4615 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4615-Introduced.html
By: Meyer | H.B. No. 4615 |
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relating to certain performance-based incentives and teacher | ||
education and development initiatives administered by the Texas | ||
Higher Education Coordinating Board. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 62, Education Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subchapter I to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER I. PERFORMANCE-BASED INCENTIVES AND TEACHER | ||
EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES | ||
Sec. 62.181. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "institution | ||
of higher education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
Sec. 62.182. FUNDING. The legislature may appropriate | ||
funding for programs established under this subchapter from any | ||
available source. | ||
Sec. 62.183. PERFORMANCE-BASED INCENTIVES. (a) From | ||
funds appropriated for the purpose, the coordinating board shall | ||
provide performance-based incentives to institutions of higher | ||
education based on the achievement of progress toward the goals | ||
established under the state's master plan for higher education | ||
developed under Section 61.051. The coordinating board shall | ||
include adult education, including vocational education, provided | ||
by the Windham School District in the incentive measures developed | ||
under this section. | ||
(b) The coordinating board shall determine eligibility | ||
criteria for and the amount of a performance-based incentive | ||
provided under this section. | ||
Sec. 62.184. TEACHER EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT | ||
INITIATIVES. (a) The coordinating board shall provide grants or | ||
other funding to support teacher education and development | ||
initiatives. | ||
(b) The initiatives may include: | ||
(1) development of or support for high quality | ||
professional development for teachers to increase teacher quality | ||
and student outcomes; | ||
(2) student loan forgiveness programs for | ||
high-performing students who graduate from an institution of higher | ||
education and who commit to teaching in the public schools in this | ||
state for at least eight years immediately following graduation; | ||
(3) the development of a teaching associate degree | ||
program at institutions of higher education that incorporates a | ||
two-year intensive teaching mentorship under a high-performing | ||
teacher and that leads to a teacher certification under Subchapter | ||
B, Chapter 21; or | ||
(4) a competitive grant program for high-performing | ||
teachers at public schools in this state to support grant | ||
recipients' proposals for innovative or promising projects to | ||
improve teacher quality or effectiveness, including projects to | ||
improve or develop best instructional practices, dual language | ||
instruction, professional development curricula for career and | ||
technical education teachers, and conferences or other measures to | ||
promote best pedagogical practices. | ||
(c) The coordinating board shall determine eligibility | ||
criteria for and the amount of funding provided for each initiative | ||
under this section. | ||
Sec. 62.185. RULES. The coordinating board shall adopt | ||
rules for the administration of this subchapter. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2020. |