37-159-15 - Report to legislature; teacher recruitment incentive programs; critical teacher shortage areas.
§ 37-159-15. Report to legislature; teacher recruitment incentive programs; critical teacher shortage areas.
The State Department of Education and the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning shall jointly prepare an annual report for the Legislature, to be submitted by December 1 of each year beginning in 1998, which shall assess the impact of the teacher recruitment incentive programs authorized under House Bill No. 609, 1998 Regular Session [Laws, 1998, ch. 544], on the employment of licensed teachers in critical teacher shortage areas. The report shall include, at a minimum, the numbers of persons who have participated in each of the programs each year, and the numbers of persons who have participated in the programs who have rendered service as teachers in critical teacher shortage areas each year by school district.
Sources: Laws, 1998, ch. 544, § 16, eff from and after passage (approved April 13, 1998).