Texas Education Code
§ 21.906 — PREPARING AND RETAINING EDUCATORS THROUGH PARTNERSHIP GROW YOUR OWN PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
ED § 21.906Title 2. PUBLIC EDUCATION · Part D. EDUCATORS AND SCHOOL DISTRICT EMPLOYEES AND VOLUNTEERS · Ch. 21. EDUCATORS · Art. R. PREPARING AND RETAINING EDUCATORS THROUGH PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS
Statute text
View on source(a)The commissioner shall establish the Preparing and Retaining Educators through Partnership Grow Your Own Partnership Program to enable qualified institutions of higher education and educator preparation programs, as determined by the commissioner, to form partnerships with school districts or open-enrollment charter schools to establish innovative staffing pipelines to ensure the availability of high-quality classroom teachers to benefit future district or school students.
(b)The grow your own partnership program must be designed to form partnerships that support:
(1)high school students in completing career and technical education courses that help prepare the students to become classroom teachers; or
(2)district or school employees who do not hold a teaching certificate in completing a bachelor's degree to enable the person to become a classroom teacher while employed by the district or school.
(c)A school district or open-enrollment charter school may participate in a grow your own partnership program only if the district or school has been approved to participate in a partnership preservice program.
(d)A school district or open-enrollment charter school participating in the grow your own partnership program shall:
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Legislative history
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1065 (H.B. 2), Sec. 2.17, eff. June 20, 2025.