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'Grow Your Own' Proposal Seeks to Boost Special Education Workforce
Summary
Representative Hall and Ogden superintendent Luke Rasmussen presented a Grow Your Own expansion for special education recruitment and development; local officials said the program improves retention and reduces reliance on traditional higher‑education pipelines.
Representative Hall presented a Grow Your Own RFA focused on recruiting and developing special education teachers.
Ogden School District superintendent Luke Rasmussen described local success with the Grow Your Own program, saying the district is seeing the benefits in teacher recruitment and retention and asked the committee to extend similar support to special education candidates. Representative Hall said the RFA could be implemented by appropriations rather than new statute and noted colleague sponsorship of complementary bills.
What’s next: The committee heard the concise presentation and thanked sponsors; no appropriation vote was recorded in the meeting transcript.
