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Committee holds administrator apprenticeship bill after concerns about mentoring and state coordination
Summary
The Senate Education Committee held House Bill 295 after senators and the Idaho Association of School Administrators raised concerns that an apprenticeship approach lacked required mentoring and state coordination.
The Senate Education Committee decided to hold House Bill 295 in committee after extended discussion about program design, mentoring supports and coordination with the State Department of Education.
Representative Dale Hawkins, the House sponsor, described the bill as a way to create an apprenticeship or alternate certification route to help small, rural districts recruit principals and superintendents. He said the number of unfilled administrative positions in some rural districts had grown from about…
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