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1 1 Amend Senate File 2366 as follows:
1 2 #1. Page 1, by inserting after line 30 the
1 3 following:
1 4 "Sec. ___. NEW SECTION. 256.17 TEACHER
1 5 INTERNSHIP PROGRAM.
1 6 1. The state board of education shall establish
1 7 and implement a program approval process by July 1,
1 8 1999, for a teacher internship program. An internship
1 9 program shall, at a minimum, include the following:
1 10 a. A one-year teaching experience conducted in a
1 11 collaborating school district.
1 12 b. Application of best practices in diverse
1 13 settings and diverse student needs under the
1 14 mentorship of selected district teachers and
1 15 postsecondary personnel.
1 16 c. Seminars and special projects designed to meet
1 17 an intern's needs.
1 18 d. Support by master teachers.
1 19 e. Opportunity to complete coursework toward a
1 20 master's degree.
1 21 2. A school district shall be paid a state subsidy
1 22 in the amount of four thousand dollars for each intern
1 23 enrolled in an approved internship program, which may
1 24 in part be used to pay the cost of providing district
1 25 teachers as mentors. Not more than five percent of
1 26 the total district subsidy for an internship program
1 27 may be used for indirect costs.
1 28 3. A teacher internship fund is established in the
1 29 office of the treasurer of state to be administered by
1 30 the department. Moneys appropriated by the general
1 31 assembly for deposit in the fund shall be paid to
1 32 school districts pursuant to the requirements of this
1 33 section and shall be expended only to pay for the
1 34 costs of the program pursuant to this section,
1 35 including the costs of the employer's share of federal
1 36 social security and Iowa public employees' retirement
1 37 system contributions, or a pension and annuity
1 38 retirement system established under chapter 294, for
1 39 such amounts paid by the districts.
1 40 4. There is appropriated from the general fund of
1 41 the state to the department of education for the
1 42 fiscal year beginning July 1, 1998, and each
1 43 succeeding fiscal year, the sum of one million five
1 44 hundred thousand dollars for purposes of the teacher
1 45 internship program."
1 46 #2. Page 16, by inserting after line 25 the
1 47 following:
1 48 "Sec. ___. Section 272.2, Code 1997, is amended by
1 49 adding the following new subsection:
1 50 NEW SUBSECTION. 16. In addition to the licensing
2 1 authority under subsection 1, establish a license for
2 2 practitioners who have completed an approved teacher
2 3 internship program as established pursuant to section
2 4 256.17."
2 5 #2. By renumbering, relettering, and redesignating
2 6 as necessary.
2 7
2 8
2 9
2 10 MIKE CONNOLLY
2 11 PATRICK J. DELUHERY
2 12 SF 2366.315 77
2 13 kh/cf/28
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