102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB1833
 
Introduced 2/17/2021, by Rep. Bob Morgan and Stephanie A. Kifowit
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
110 ILCS 48/45 new

     Amends the Grow Your Own Teacher Education Act. Requires the Board of Higher Education to establish and administer a transition to teaching program that allows competent professionals, recent college graduates, and individuals working at a school or in some other facet of teaching to train to become teachers.  Provides that a person is eligible to participate in the program if the person (1) passes a written examination that demonstrates competency in relevant subjects related to the person's expected teaching position, (2) participates in a beginning teacher residency program at an elementary or secondary school in this State, and (3) receives sponsorship by the school to have an initial practitioner license issued by the State Board of Education that allows the individual to teach at the school while pursuing a Professional Educator License.  As part of the transition to teaching program, requires the Board of Higher Education to establish a loan forgiveness program in which a person participating in the transition to teaching program who has student loans guaranteed by the State of Illinois is eligible to have those loans forgiven if the person successfully receives a Professional Educator License and teaches in a rural school district or a disadvantaged school district in this State for 2 consecutive school years.
  


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A BILL FOR
 

  
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1    AN ACT concerning education.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Grow
  Your Own Teacher Education Act is 
5amended  by adding Section 45 as follows:
 
6    (110 ILCS 48/45 new)
7    Sec. 45. Transition to teaching program.
8    (a) The Board of Higher Education shall establish and 
9administer a transition to teaching program that allows 
10competent professionals, recent college graduates, and 
11individuals working at a school or in some other facet of 
12teaching to train to become teachers.  A person is eligible to 
13participate in the program if the person: 
14        (1) passes a written examination that demonstrates 
15    competency in relevant subjects related to the person's 
16    expected teaching position; 
17        (2) participates in a beginning teacher residency 
18    program at an elementary or secondary school in this 
19    State; and 
20        (3) receives sponsorship by the school to have an 
21    initial practitioner license issued by the State Board of 
22    Education that allows the individual to teach at the 
23    school while pursuing a Professional Educator License 
 
 
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1    under Article 21B of the School Code. 
2    The State Board of Education shall create an initial 
3practitioner license by rule. 
4    (b) As part of the transition to teaching program, the 
5Board of Higher Education shall establish a loan forgiveness 
6program in which a person participating in the transition to 
7teaching program who has student loans guaranteed by the State 
8of Illinois is eligible to have those loans forgiven if the 
9person successfully receives a Professional Educator License 
10under Article 21B of the School Code and teaches in a rural 
11school district or a disadvantaged school district in this 
12State for 2 consecutive school years.