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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4681
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4681 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The Grow
Your Own Teacher Education Act is | ||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
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| 6 | (110 ILCS 48/5)
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| 7 | Sec. 5. Purpose. The The Grow Your Own Teacher preparation
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| 8 | programs established under this Act shall comprise a major new
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| 9 | statewide initiative, known as the Grow Your Own Teacher
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| 10 | Education Initiative, to prepare highly skilled, committed
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| 11 | teachers who will teach in hard-to-staff schools, including | ||||||
| 12 | within the Department of Juvenile Justice School District, and
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| 13 | hard-to-staff teaching positions and who will remain in these
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| 14 | schools for substantial periods of time. | ||||||
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The Grow Your Own Teacher Education Initiative shall
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| 16 | effectively recruit and prepare parent and community leaders
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| 1 | and paraeducators to become effective teachers statewide in | ||||||
| 2 | hard-to-staff schools serving a substantial percentage of | ||||||
| 3 | low-income students and
hard-to-staff teaching positions in | ||||||
| 4 | schools
serving a substantial percentage of low-income | ||||||
| 5 | students.
Further, the Initiative shall increase the diversity | ||||||
| 6 | of
teachers, including diversity based on race and ethnicity.
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| 7 | The Grow Your Own Teacher Education Initiative shall ensure
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| 8 | educational rigor by effectively preparing candidates in
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| 9 | accredited bachelor's degree programs in teaching, through
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| 10 | which graduates shall meet the requirements to secure an
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| 11 | Illinois initial teaching certificate.
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| 12 | The goal of the Grow Your Own Teacher Education Initiative | ||||||
| 13 | is to add 1,000 teachers to low-income, hard-to-staff Illinois | ||||||
| 14 | schools by 2016.
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| 15 | (Source: P.A. 95-476, eff. 1-1-08; 96-144, eff. 8-7-09; 96-414, | ||||||
| 16 | eff. 1-1-10; 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)".
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