Assembly Commerce and Economic Development Committee Statement to Assembly, No. 3945 (June 22, 2023)

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The Assembly Commerce and Economic Development Committee, in a statement dated June 22, 2023, reports favorably Assembly Bill No. 3945. The bill establishes the three-year Male Teachers of Color Mentorship Pilot Program, developed and operated by the Commissioner of Education. Under the pilot program, the commissioner will select 10 male students of color and 10 male teachers of color, and a mentor will receive a stipend of $5,000 for each year of participation. At the conclusion of the pilot program, the commissioner will submit a report to the Governor and Legislature. The bill appropriates $50,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Education.

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ASSEMBLY COMMERCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
                COMMITTEE

                          STATEMENT TO

                     ASSEMBLY, No. 3945

       STATE OF NEW JERSEY
                             DATED: JUNE 22, 2023

           The Assembly Commerce and Economic Development Committee
      reports favorably Assembly Bill No. 3945.
           This bill establishes the three-year “Male Teachers of Color
      Mentorship Pilot Program,” which is to be developed and operated by
      the Commissioner of Education. The commissioner will select one or
      more senior public institutions of higher education, which offer
      educator preparation programs, and one or more school districts that
      each employ at least one male teacher of color to participate in the
      pilot program.
           Under the pilot program, the commissioner will select 10 male
      students of color from among the senior public institutions of higher
      education selected for participation in the pilot program and 10 male
      teachers of color from the school districts selected for participation in
      the pilot program. To be eligible for the program, a student is required
      to be in his final year of an educator preparation program.
           The commissioner will then pair each selected student with a
      current teacher, who will serve as the student’s mentor through the
      candidate’s last year of his educator preparation program and, if the
      student is hired for employment in the participating district upon the
      student’s graduation from an educator preparation program, for the
      first two years of the student’s teaching career.
           A school district that provides mentoring services under the
      provisions of the bill will conduct a review of the student’s
      performance under the pilot program following completion of the
      student’s final year in an educator preparation program. A school
      district that provides mentoring services to a student under the pilot
      program is required to make a good faith effort to hire the student
      following the student’s graduation from an educator preparation
      program, if the student receives a favorable performance review under
      the review conducted by the school district.
           Under the pilot program, a mentor will receive a stipend of $5,000
      for each year of participation in the pilot program.
           At the conclusion of the pilot program, the commissioner will
      submit a report to the Governor and Legislature on the implementation
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and effectiveness of the pilot program, including the commissioner’s
recommendation on the advisability of the program’s continuation and
expansion to additional school districts and senior public institutions
of higher education in the State.
    The bill appropriates from the General Fund to the Department of
Education $50,000 to establish the “Male Teachers of color
Mentorship Pilot Program.”


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