SB 380, as introduced, Allen. Student financial aid: Topline Teacher Recruitment and Retention Program.
Existing law establishes the Student Aid Commission as the state agency charged with the responsibility of administering student financial aid programs, including the Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program, the Assumption Program of Loans for Education, the State Nursing Assumption Program of Loans for Education, the Graduate Assumption Program of Loans for Education, and the Middle Class Scholarship Program, among other programs.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to establish the Topline Teacher Recruitment and Retention Program, under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, which would make funds available to students at public postsecondary educational institutions who have graduated in the top 5% of their secondary school classes and have committed to teaching in public secondary schools for a specified number of years.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Article 24 (commencing with Section 70050) is
2added to Chapter 2 of Part 42 of Division 5 of Title 3 of the 3Education Code, to read:
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It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to
8establish the Topline Teacher Recruitment and Retention Program,
9under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, to make
10funds available to students at public postsecondary educational
11institutions who have graduated in the top 5 percent of their
12secondary school classes and have committed to teaching in public
13secondary schools for a specified number of years.
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