MN HF3093

Board of Teaching must approve qualified alternative teacher preparation programs offered through partnerships of school districts or charter schools with colleges, universities, or nonprofit education organizations.

Candidates must have a bachelor's degree with minimum 3.0 GPA (or meet board-adopted criteria), pass reading/writing/mathematics skills examination, and obtain qualifying scores on content area and pedagogy tests.

Alternative programs must include minimum 200-hour instructional phase, research-based teaching practices, peer coaching, staff development with mentorship, and assessment of participant progress toward standard entrance license.

Teachers with limited-term license are subject to local collective bargaining agreements and must demonstrate satisfactory progress toward acquiring standard entrance license evaluated by local site team using Minnesota State Standards of Effective Practice for Teachers.

Board of Teaching must submit interim report by February 15, 2012, and final report by February 15, 2014, to the K-12 Education Policy and Finance committees; section effective for 2010-2011 school year and later.