Tweaking Educator Licensure and Building Another Teacher Pipeline Program

Description

This bill revises educator licensure rules, adds community college members to the State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board, creates a state-developed teacher performance assessment pilot, and establishes a Paraprofessional to Teacher Pathway Program along with new testing and partnership structures. It layers yet more state-driven education bureaucracy onto a system already failing too many students, rather than empowering parental choice. CPAC supports school choice and local control over education and opposed this bill. The House passed this bill on 2025-05-22 by a vote of 84-31. The bill later became law.