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Current law requires the department of education (department) to
award an annual stipend of $1,600 to teachers, school counselors,
principals, and school psychologists who hold national board certification
and who are employed by a school district, board of cooperative services,
charter school of a school district, or an institute charter school (local
education provider). The bill extends the $1,600 stipend to qualified
librarians and school social workers who hold national board certification
and who are employed by a local education provider.
Current law allows the department to award an additional $3,200
annual stipend to teachers, principals, school counselors, and school
psychologists who are employed in a low-performing, high-needs school.
The bill allows the department to also extend an additional $3,200 stipend
to librarians or school social workers who are employed in a
low-performing, high-needs school. The additional $3,200 stipend is also
extended to teachers, librarians, school counselors, school psychologists,
or school social workers (national board-certified educators) who are
employed in a rural school district. The bill allows the department to
extend an additional $3,200 stipend to national board-certified educators
who are employed as math teachers in any school.
If a national board-certified educator transfers employment from
one low-performing, high-needs school or rural school district to another
low-performing, high-needs school or rural school district, the educator
remains eligible for the additional stipend. However, if a national
board-certified educator leaves employment with a low-performing,
high-needs school or rural school district, the educator is no longer
eligible for the additional stipend.
If a national board-certified math teacher transfers schools as a
math teacher, the educator remains eligible for the additional stipend.
However, if a national board-certified educator who is a math teacher
stops teaching math, the educator is no longer eligible for the additional
stipend.
If there are insufficient funds, the department shall reduce the
amount of each stipend by the same percentage that the deficit bears to
the amount required to fully fund the total number of national
board-certified educators who qualify for the stipend.
A national board-certified educator who is employed as a principal
or an administrator in a school and maintains a national certification is
eligible for a stipend.
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