Friday, February 5, 2021

Senate Passes Teacher License Reciprocity & Loan Repayment Bill

 Lieutenant Governor Delbert Hosemann issued the following statement.

 The Senate today passed two bills helping teachers enter the profession—and stay in the profession—in Mississippi.  The legislation next heads to the House for consideration.

Senate Bill 2267, authored by Education Chairman Dennis DeBar, requires the State Department of Education to issue a Mississippi license to any teacher who has a valid out-of-state license within 14 days of receipt of the application.  Teachers receiving reciprocity would still be subject to a background check before being hired by a district under a separate statute.

Senate Bill 2305, authored by Senator David Blount, provides annual grants to new teachers to pay down student loan debt.  The grants would increase incrementally over a three-year period and would be paid directly to the teacher’s loan provider at the end of their contractual teaching year, with those teaching in a critical needs shortage area receiving a larger amount.

In all, teachers in a school district not designated as a critical needs shortage area could receive up to $10,500.  Teachers in districts designated as critical needs shortage areas could receive up to $16,500.  The average student loan debt in Mississippi is about $36,000.

“Last year, we made it easier for students to enter teacher education preparation programs at our universities. This year, we are tackling pay and licensure hurdles,” Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann said. “These are targeted efforts aimed at ending the teacher shortage in our state.”

Chairman DeBar agreed.

“Attracting more properly trained people to the profession and then keeping them in the classroom is imperative to continuing to improve academic achievement, especially as we recover from the pandemic,” he said. “We want our educators in Mississippi to know we value them by reducing unnecessary barriers to becoming a teacher.”

To view Senate Bill 2267, visit http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/history/SB/SB2267.xml. To view Senate Bill 2305, visit http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/history/SB/SB2305.xml.

 

5 comments:

VOICE OF REASON said...

FIRE CAREY WRIGHT!

Anonymous said...

The teachers would rather have a change of culture where they are respected, and disrespected students are rapidly banished more so than a raise, or any nickel and dime loan repayment gimmick. Wouldn't cost a penny....but the "leaders" don't want to explain to the useless parents that they haven't prepared their precious child for formal education where you have to follow the rules.

Most real solutions don't involve money....that's a politician's game - don't play it.

Anonymous said...

A bill like 2267 was proposed and needed from 1978 for years.

You could have won national teaching awards and had a PhD and the cost to be licensed here would still be tantamount to starting over.

Other professions were discouraged for years as well...lawyers and licensed social workers and clinicians of all sorts.

Can't have qualified people competing with Bubba's youngster who barely got out of college with a degree in geography but was in social work or a law review and experienced lawyer from a top law school who'd passed three bar exams competing with the bottom grads from Ole Miss... that finally changed...thank you Baptists .

But, dumb and undereducated...even delusional... is becoming fashionable so who knows if this will pass?

Say What? said...

12:19 - Your longest paragraph makes absodamnlutely zero sense. Please come up for air and try again.

My Kids R Half Way to 80 said...

What has the state of Mississippi got to do with college loans? I could be mistaken, but don't think the state loans money to students. The Feds do, through the Dept of Education, but the Mississippi legislature has no authority to affect those loans.

Both of my kids had college loans but with no state interaction. What am I missing?


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