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BILL · 2015–16 SESSION

HB 2881: Educator shortage

Responding to the educator shortage crisis by increasing training, recruitment, and retention, in order to enable Washington to lower class sizes.

Summary

  • Establishes the Teacher Shortage Conditional Grant program for certain students completing teacher preparation programs who commit to obtaining an endorsement in a subject or geographic endorsement shortage area and teaching for five school years in a school that needs such a teacher.
  • Establishes the Teacher Endorsement and Certification Help Project to cover the cost of basic skills and content test for low-income teachers obtaining teacher certifies with shortage area endorsements.
  • Expands the Opportunity Scholarship program to educator preparation programs with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics endorsements.
  • Requires public teacher preparation programs to have recruitment specialists that focus on recruitment of students from underrepresented groups.
  • Requires development and implementation of a statewide campaign to encourage recruitment to small school districts.
  • Requires development and implementation of a statewide central application depository accessible by small districts and a centralized hiring portal for districts hiring fewer than five new teachers per year.

From the House Bill Analysis 2016 (HB 2881), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 25, 2016
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Gerry Pollet (D-46)
Introduced
January 25, 2016 in the House
Last action
March 10, 2016
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to responding to the educator shortage crisis by increasing training, recruitment, and retention, in order to enable Washington to lower class sizes;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Gerry Pollet (D-46)

9 co-sponsors (9 Democrats, 0 Republicans)

Chris Reykdal D-22Derek Stanford D-1Jeff Morris D-40Senator D-22Lillian Ortiz-Self D-21Chris Kilduff D-28Brady Walkinshaw D-43Noel Frame D-36Jessyn Farrell D-46

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 2881 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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