INCREASE TEACHER DIVERSITY/STUDY (NEW).

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House Bill 833 (Public) Filed Wednesday, April 19, 2023
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO STUDY AND REPORT ON PROGRAMS FOCUSED ON INCREASING THE SOCIOECONOMIC AND GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY OF TEACHERS IN PUBLIC ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
Intro. by Fontenot, Cotham, Brockman.
Status: Re-ref Com On Appropriations (House action) (May 30 2023)

SOG comments (1):

Long title change

Submitted by jhenders@sog.unc.edu on

Committee substitute to the 1st edition changed the long title. Original long title was AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO STUDY AND REPORT ON PROGRAMS FOCUSED ON INCREASING MINORITY MALE TEACHERS.

Bill History:

H 833

Bill Summaries:

  • Bill H 833 (2023-2024)
    Summary date: May 30 2023 - View Summary

    House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes.

    Changes the scope of the study by the Office of Learning Recovery and Acceleration in the Department of Public Instruction, in collaboration with the NC Policy Collaboratory, to require studying ways to increase the representation of teachers from diverse socioeconomic and geographic backgrounds in public elementary and secondary schools (was, study programs aimed at increasing minority males, including African American males, enrolled in educator preparation programs and employed as teachers in public elementary and secondary schools). Makes conforming changes to the required components of the report on the study. Makes conforming changes to the act's titles. 

    Education, Elementary and Secondary Education, Higher Education, Government, Budget/Appropriations, State Agencies, UNC System, Department of Public Instruction
    APPROP, STUDY
  • Bill H 833 (2023-2024)
    Summary date: Apr 21 2023 - View Summary

    Directs the Office of Learning Recovery and Acceleration in the Department of Public Instruction, in collaboration with the NC Policy Collaboratory, no later than March 15, 2024, to study and report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee on programs aimed at increasing minority males, including African American males, enrolled in educator preparation programs and employed as teachers in public elementary and secondary schools.

    Specifies the report must include at least: (1) a survey of at least the Call Me MiSTER (Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models) program at Western Carolina University, the Marathon Teaching Institute at North Carolina Central University, and effective programs in other states, about their impact on the number of minority males enrolled in educator preparation programs and employed as teachers in public elementary and secondary schools and (2) recommendations, including expanding programs, establishing new programs, and developing a statewide program.

    Appropriates $150,000 in nonrecurring funds from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction for fiscal year 2023-24 for the study and report. 

    Effective July 1, 2023.

    Education, Elementary and Secondary Education, Higher Education, Government, Budget/Appropriations, State Agencies, UNC System, Department of Public Instruction
    APPROP, STUDY
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