Bill > HB4188

This bill makes several key changes: 1. It increases the minimum monthly salary for classroom teachers, full-time speech pathologists, librarians, counselors, and nurses, with higher minimum salaries for those with more experience and certifications. 2. It prohibits educator preparation programs from using the "three-cueing" method of reading instruction and requires them to include instruction on the science of teaching reading. 3. It provides exceptions to allow teachers to resign from probationary, continuing, or term contracts for certain personal or family reasons without facing sanctions. 4. It establishes a new grant program to provide funding and technical assistance to school districts and charter schools to expand local optional teacher designation systems that recognize high-performing teachers. 5. It increases allotment funding for school districts with teachers who hold certain designations, like master or exemplary teacher. 6. It creates a new Texas Teacher Residency Partnership Program to pair educator preparation program candidates with mentor teachers in school districts. 7. It requires school districts to allocate at least 50% of any increase in state funding to raise average total compensation for classroom teachers, librarians, counselors, and nurses.

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