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Committee advances bill letting districts use management levy for teacher recruitment and retention incentives
Summary
The Senate Education Committee advanced a bill allowing school boards to fund limited teacher recruitment and retention incentives from the district management levy.
The Senate Education Committee advanced Senate Study Bill 1027 after a subcommittee recommended passage. The bill would allow a school board to adopt a locally administered teacher recruitment and retention incentive program and to include the program’s estimated cost in the district management levy, subject to restrictions specified in the bill.
Under the bill, a recruitment or retention incentive paid by a district may not exceed 10% of the state-required minimum initial teacher salary in any given year. Districts would not be allowed to pay a recruitment or retention…
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