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Committee considers broadened licensure pathways and higher-education reporting changes in SB 204
Summary
Senate Bill 204 would expand alternative pathways into teaching (including a route from charter licensure to an initial practitioner license and widening nontraditional pathways beyond STEM), streamline higher-education reporting and raise capital-project thresholds; teacher groups and university representatives asked for refinements around pedagogy, retention and local bargaining language.
Senate Bill 204 brought layered K–12 and higher-education changes before the committee. The bill proposes multiple reforms: expanded licensure pathways for professionals and charter teachers to transition to traditional practitioner licensure, broader nontraditional pathways beyond STEM graduates, adjustments to how academic-need factors operate in bargaining-related pay language, and deletions of duplicative higher-education reporting with an increased review threshold for capital projects.
Senator Derry summarized the goals as expanding…
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