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Bill AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO GROW YOUR OWN EDUCATOR PROGRAM. This Act creates a statewide Grow Your Own Educator Program to improve recruitment, retention, and diversity of educators in Delaware public schools. The Program establishes a competitive grant process to be administered by the Department of Education. Any Delaware reorganized school district or charter school can apply for a grant to establish its own unique Grow your Own Educator Program. Subject to funding grants will be awarded on a 2-year basis. Applicants must provide a detailed explanation how their proposed Program will be run, including any partnerships with institutions of higher education and whether the Program anticipates providing last dollar tuition and related educational financial assistance to candidates accepted into their Program who commit to teaching a minimum of 3 years, upon licensure, in the Applicants school district or charter school. Any awarded grant money must be used to initiate and run the Program. In evaluating applications that meet the Departments criteria, if funding is limited, the Department will give additional weight to Applicants that prioritize recruiting candidates from high-need schools, placing teacher candidates in high-need schools, develop programs that support teacher professionals, including bilingual candidates and those without bachelors degrees, and leverage apprenticeship and year-long teacher residency models. The Department will annually provide Program data to the Senate and House Education Committees including the number of grant applications, the number of grants awarded, names of districts and charter schools receiving grants, and retention rate for educator candidates hired by the district or charter school. us/states/de Delaware General Assembly 151 HB 430 Delaware HB 430 (151)
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Michael F. Smith
S. Elizabeth Lockman
Sherae'a Moore
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Delaware HB 430 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO GROW YOUR OWN EDUCATOR PROGRAM.

This Act creates a statewide Grow Your Own Educator Program to improve recruitment, retention, and diversity of educators in Delaware public schools. The Program establishes a competitive grant process to be administered by the Department of Education. Any Delaware reorganized school district or charter school can apply for a grant to establish its own unique Grow your Own Educator Program. Subject to funding grants will be awarded on a 2-year basis. Applicants must provide a detailed explanation how their proposed Program will be run, including any partnerships with institutions of higher education and whether the Program anticipates providing last dollar tuition and related educational financial assistance to candidates accepted into their Program who commit to teaching a minimum of 3 years, upon licensure, in the Applicants school district or charter school. Any awarded grant money must be used to initiate and run the Program. In evaluating applications that meet the Departments criteria, if funding is limited, the Department will give additional weight to Applicants that prioritize recruiting candidates from high-need schools, placing teacher candidates in high-need schools, develop programs that support teacher professionals, including bilingual candidates and those without bachelors degrees, and leverage apprenticeship and year-long teacher residency models. The Department will annually provide Program data to the Senate and House Education Committees including the number of grant applications, the number of grants awarded, names of districts and charter schools receiving grants, and retention rate for educator candidates hired by the district or charter school.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • 2/3 — 380 (pass) · lower
  • SM — 210 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
  • Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
  • Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
  • S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
  • Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
  • William Bush — primary (person)
  • David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
  • Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
  • Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
  • Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
  • John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
  • Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
  • Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

  • 2022-05-17 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
  • 2022-06-08 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 6 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2022-06-14 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT passage
  • 2022-06-14 Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
  • 2022-06-22 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2022-07-01 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
  • 2022-09-09 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e208ea84-e9f5-4ba1-a4ba-7e23a510b41a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).