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Committee lays over PELSB operations bill to support licensing pathways, portfolio review and heritage-language educators
Summary
House File 2741, an agency operations bill for the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB), was laid over after testimony describing funding to keep PELSB staffed, sustain the licensure-via-portfolio platform and expand the heritage language educator pathway.
Representative Zev Hill moved House File 2741 as amended (A1) to provide operational funding to the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB). Hill said the bill would maintain staffing to process educator licenses in a timely manner and support two alternative licensure pathways: licensure via portfolio and the Heritage Language Educator pathway.
Dr. Yelena Bailey, executive director of PELSB, described the agency's role licensing roughly 10,000 teachers in Minnesota and overseeing…
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