2024 LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY FISCAL WINS 5% Increase in the WPU (even in a “socks and underwear” budget year) HB 221 (Rep. Karen Peterson) • Provides projected $6,000 stipend for student teachers. • Statewide appropriation of $8.4M one time. $192/Student Increase in the LRF HB 105 (Rep. Kera Birkeland) • $500 to each PreK-6 teacher for classroom supplies. • $250 to each 7-12 teacher for classroom materials. • Statewide appropriations of $8.4M one time. POLICY WINS HB 182 (Rep. Karianne Lisonbee) • Requires annual parent consent for a school to administer a non-academic survey to students. • Makes the model school climate survey opt-in at the school level. HB 301 (Rep. Karianne Lisonbee) • Eliminates the requirement to send contracts about your facility to the authorizer. • Requires authorizers and charter schools to develop performance metrics unique to each school. • Authorizes a charter school to voluntarily merge with another charter school. HB 499 (Rep. Susan Pulsipher) • Modifies the frequency of required trainings to match recommendations of the Reports and Requirements Task Force. SB 173 (Sen. Lincoln Fillmore) • Greater flexibility for charter schools to target teacher stipends to the areas each school needs. • Opportunity to give significant bonuses to the best-performing teachers based on each school’s evaluation of who their best teacher was. HB 82 (Sen. Candice Pierucci) • Simplifies the trust lands process for charter schools. 16
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