Bill #2 AN ACT RELATING TO PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENT, RECRUITMENT, SELECTION, RETENTION, AND ONGOING SUPPORT PREAMBLE WHEREAS, beginning educators are inequitably and disproportionately found in schools in high-poverty neighborhoods and communities; and WHEREAS, beginning educators are, on average, less effective than more experienced ones; and WHEREAS, a new principal may require up to five years to fully implement their vision for a school in order to achieve stability in achievement and staffing; and WHEREAS, nearly 30 percent of principals who lead troubled schools quit every year and more than 50 percent of principals leave their jobs by their third year in the role; and WHEREAS, principal turnover is expensive for local school systems, costing as much as $75,000 for every principal leaving the system according to the School Leaders Network, representing costs associated with recruiting, inducting, and other personnel matters relating to new principal training; and WHEREAS, principal turnover is detrimental to student achievement, as principals are estimated to account for about 25 percent of a school’s total influence on student academic performance; and WHEREAS, the (P.L. 114-95) provides various levels of Every Student Succeeds Act federal support and new opportunities to support teacher, principal, and other school leader training and preparation along the educator career continuum; and WHEREAS, research demonstrates that comprehensive, multi-year induction programs accelerate the professional growth, reduce the rate of attrition, provide a stronger return on states’ and school districts’ investment, and improve student learning; and WHEREAS, only 20 states require some type of support for first-time school principals, and of those, only six states—California, Delaware, Hawaii, Missouri, New Jersey, and Vermont—require induction or mentoring for first- and second-year school principals; now therefore Article: EDUCATION CHAPTER 1. DEVELOPMENT, RECRUITMENT, RETENTION, AND SUPPORT SECTION 1. Improved Resource System Grants
Bill #2 AN ACT RELATING TO PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENT, RECRUITMENT, SELECTION, RETENTION, AND ONGOING SUPPORT PREAMBLE WHEREAS, beginning educators are inequitably and disproportionately found in schools in high-poverty neighborhoods and communities; and WHEREAS, beginning educators are, on average, less effective than more experienced ones; and WHEREAS, a new principal may require up to five years to fully implement their vision for a school in order to achieve stability in achievement and staffing; and WHEREAS, nearly 30 percent of principals who lead troubled schools quit every year and more than 50 percent of principals leave their jobs by their third year in the role; and WHEREAS, principal turnover is expensive for local school systems, costing as much as $75,000 for every principal leaving the system according to the School Leaders Network, representing costs associated with recruiting, inducting, and other personnel matters relating to new principal training; and WHEREAS, principal turnover is detrimental to student achievement, as principals are estimated to account for about 25 percent of a school’s total influence on student academic performance; and WHEREAS, the Every Student Succeeds Act (P.L. 114-95) provides various levels of federal support and new opportunities to support teacher, principal, and other school leader training and preparation along the educator career continuum; and WHEREAS, research demonstrates that comprehensive, multi-year induction programs accelerate the professional growth, reduce the rate of attrition, provide a stronger return on states’ and school districts’ investment, and improve student learning; and WHEREAS, only 20 states require some type of support for first-time school principals, and of those, only six states—California, Delaware, Hawaii, Missouri, New Jersey, and Vermont—require induction or mentoring for first- and second-year school principals; now therefore Article: EDUCATION CHAPTER 1. DEVELOPMENT, RECRUITMENT, RETENTION, AND SUPPORT SECTION 1. Improved Resource System Grants
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