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Committee backs apprenticeship route to help rural districts fill administrator vacancies
Summary
The House Committee on Education voted to send House Bill 295 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation after debate over whether an apprenticeship pathway will ease administrator shortages in rural Idaho school districts.
House Committee on Education Chairman Pickett on Friday moved House Bill 295 to the full House with a due-pass recommendation after roughly an hour of questions and public testimony.
The bill, sponsored by Representative Dale Hawkins, would create an administrator leadership apprenticeship program to expand the pipeline for principals and superintendents by allowing experienced professionals from other industries to pursue school administrative certification through supervised apprenticeships and coursework at regionally accredited Idaho higher education institutions.
The measure is aimed at rural districts that say they struggle to recruit and retain school leaders. "We have a gap, we have an issue; small communities are the ones suffering,"…
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