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House Bill 252 hearing: sponsors, agencies and districts back targeted teacher-pay and credentials investments
Summary
Supporters said HB 252 would compress salary scales, boost starting teacher pay and fund incentives for dual credit and career-technical credentials; agencies described roles, timelines and IT needs to implement the plan.
Representative Lou Jones, sponsor of House Bill 252, opened the committee hearing by summarizing the bill's main goals: compress teacher salary scales to increase beginning teacher pay, direct significant funding toward early-career teachers, and create incentives for students to graduate with dual-credit and stackable career-technical credentials.
Supporters described the bill's funding and implementation mechanics. Jones said the matrix attached to the bill shows roughly $50 million intended for the teacher portion of the program, with about $20 million expected to be required initially to begin scale compression. Lance Melton of the Montana School Boards Association endorsed the bill as a necessary response to long-term wage declines among educators,…
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