Senators passed a bill providing school boards the option to offer more financial incentives to teachers on 26-7 vote.   Senate Bill 132 would allow districts leeway to offer a signing bonus, moving expenses, or tuition reimbursement to a teacher employed in the school district. An amendment to the bill removed a clause allowing districts to […]

A second bill promoting teacher recruitment to rural school districts had a hearing in front of legislative appropriators on Friday.   Senate Bill 144, which would create a tuition reimbursement program for certain teachers teaching in rural school districts, had a hearing in front of members of the Senate Appropriations committee.   No action was

Members of the House Education committee voted to defer one bill to the 41st legislative day and send another to the House floor.   On an 8-6 vote, committee members killed House Bill 1114, which would have required school districts with general fund balances of 50 percent or greater during the previous fiscal year to