STATEHOUSE – Indiana House Republicans approved a bill sponsored by Rep. Dave Heine (R-Fort Wayne) last week providing scholarship opportunities to Hoosiers who are pursuing a career in education.
Heine said his legislation builds on a law he authored last year to create Transition to Teaching Scholarships, which provide a one-time, non-renewable, $10,000 scholarship to students enrolled in a transition-to-teaching certification program.
“With the success of the Transition to Teaching Scholarships, we’ve realized the demand is far greater than we anticipated,” Heine said. “That’s why I authored legislation this year dip into Indiana’s existing resources to fund more scholarship opportunities, which will ultimately help our state grow our teacher workforce.”
To be eligible for the Transition to Teaching Scholarship, applicants pursuing a transition-to-teaching certification need to have a bachelor’s degree, agree to obtain an initial practitioner license and teach in Indiana for at least five years. Heine said he worked closely last year with East Allen County Schools Superintendent Marilyn Hissong to craft the legislation, and help schools fill much-needed teaching positions.
The Indiana Department of Education reported 1,670 teacher openings after the 2022-23 school year started.
House Bill 1042 now moves to the Senate for further consideration.
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I cannot support ANY additional money for “education.” Why you may ask? Look around. Our education system has become an indoctrination system from top to bottom. And that indoctrination only goes one way. IT is toward the profane rather than the sane or moral. Or society will not last much longer when we abandon the principles that got us this far.There is no equality to it. It is always towards Marxism rather than the Freedom and Liberty afforded by our American Republic.Much of what goes on in the schools is barbaric and is child abuse. When you see a new school board member take his oath of office on a stack of pornographic books he wants in all school libraries you know the fat lady has sung. Oddly, if parents want their kids to see this material it is available on Amazon and elsewhere. Let them buy their own copies.
Many republicans are really democrats. But no democrat is really a republican.