Texas Education Code - EDUC § 21.906. Preparing and Retaining Educators Through Partnership Grow Your Own Partnership Program

(a) The commissioner shall establish the Preparing and Retaining Educators through Partnership Grow Your Own Partnership Program to enable qualified institutions of higher education and educator preparation programs, as determined by the commissioner, to form partnerships with school districts or open-enrollment charter schools to establish innovative staffing pipelines to ensure the availability of high-quality classroom teachers to benefit future district or school students.

(b) The grow your own partnership program must be designed to form partnerships that support:

(c) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may participate in a grow your own partnership program only if the district or school has been approved to participate in a partnership preservice program.

(d) A school district or open-enrollment charter school participating in the grow your own partnership program shall:

(e) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may use money received under Section 48.157 to implement the grow your own partnership program and pay tuition and fees for students or employees participating in the program.

(f) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may only pair a student or employee participating in the program with a cooperating teacher who agrees to participate in that role in a grow your own partnership program at the district or school.

(g) A student or employee participating in the program may not serve:

(h) A student or employee participating in the program may serve in a position described by Subsection (g)(2) for the limited purpose of gaining experience in the position.  The student's or employee's amount of time serving in that position may not exceed the amount of time during which the teacher of record for the students has the primary or sole responsibility of providing instruction or supervision to those students.