Bill Text: TX SB2348 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the award of grants by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for innovative principal preparation programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Higher Education [SB2348 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2348-Introduced.html
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| By: Creighton | S.B. No. 2348 | |
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| relating to the award of grants by the Texas Higher Education | ||
| Coordinating Board for innovative principal preparation programs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 61.0767 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 61.0767. PRINCIPAL PREPARATION GRANT PROGRAM. (a) | ||
| The board shall establish and administer the principal preparation | ||
| grant program to provide grants to schools of education at | ||
| institutions of higher education and non-degree granting | ||
| organizations to provide funding to develop, support, or expand and | ||
| administer innovative principal preparation programs. | ||
| (b) In awarding grants under this section, the board shall | ||
| give priority to programs that demonstrate: | ||
| (1) a defined competency framework, including the set | ||
| of skills, knowledge, and disposition required of a principal to | ||
| drive high levels of student achievement for all children; | ||
| (2) a strategic, proactive, and targeted recruitment | ||
| and admission strategy that reflects the competency framework | ||
| described in Subdivision (1); | ||
| (3) highly selective, clear criteria and rigorous | ||
| processes to evaluate a principal preparation program applicant's | ||
| disposition, skills, and knowledge; | ||
| (4) experiential training and development; | ||
| (5) ongoing support for principals who graduate from | ||
| the program to help the principal transition and grow on the job; | ||
| (6) a commitment to continuous improvement and use of | ||
| data to assess the effectiveness of the program and principals who | ||
| complete the program; and | ||
| (7) any additional reasonable criteria prescribed by | ||
| board rule. | ||
| (c) A grant provided under this section must be used for: | ||
| (1) financial aid for participants in the principal | ||
| preparation program; | ||
| (2) rigorous assessment of principal preparation | ||
| program applicants through leadership simulation experiences rated | ||
| by trained assessors; | ||
| (3) the acquisition and use of technology by the | ||
| institution or organization to support measures of competency in | ||
| the field for principal preparation program participants; | ||
| (4) recruiting, hiring, and training educational | ||
| leaders to provide ongoing support to principal preparation program | ||
| participants on-site during a participant's residency; | ||
| (5) hiring experts to design and instruct in select | ||
| areas of the principal preparation program; and | ||
| (6) other permissible uses as determined by the board. | ||
| (d) The legislature may appropriate money for purposes of | ||
| this section. The board may solicit and accept gifts, grants, and | ||
| donations from any public or private source for purposes of this | ||
| section. | ||
| (e) The board shall adopt rules for the administration of | ||
| this section, including rules for governing applications for | ||
| grants, establishing procedures and criteria for evaluating | ||
| applications and awarding grants, and verifying that grant funds | ||
| awarded under this section are used appropriately. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
