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Committee advances bill to publish report cards for teacher-preparation programs
Summary
The Education Policy committee voted to give House Bill 603 a favorable report after debate on data collection, program transparency and participation by public universities; the bill would require a digital report card on teacher-preparation metrics, including admission standards, exam pass rates and one- and three-year retention.
Representative Dubose presented House Bill 603 on behalf of the bill’s sponsors, saying, “This is a report card bill. It expands on a report card that our state department of education is putting out, but it's to evaluate the effectiveness of teacher preparation programs in our state.” The measure would require education-preparation programs at state universities to provide data for a digital report card that the State Department of Education would publish and make downloadable.
Dubose told the committee the report card would include counts…
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