Committee adopts author's amendment and re-refers statewide teacher-apprenticeship proposal to workforce committee

Representative Mueller presented House File 1538 as a proposal to fund and organize a statewide registered teacher apprenticeship program and a joint apprenticeship training committee (JATC). The committee adopted the author's DE2 amendment and approved re-referral of the bill to the committee on workforce, labor and economic policy.

Representative Mueller said registered teacher apprenticeship is a federally recognized career pathway in which employers provide paid, on-the-job training combined with related instruction, and she described the bill as a proposal to use workforce-development dollars to support a statewide structure. “This funding would be used … to support establishment of a statewide registered teacher apprenticeship program and joint apprenticeship training committee,” Mueller said, describing recommended appropriations in the governor’s budget and differences between…