AB 1100

Under current law, the Higher Educational Aids Board administers a minority

teacher loan program which provides a maximum of $30,000 in loans to eligible

minority students. The loans may be repaid to HEAB, or may be forgiven if the

eligible recipient satisfies certain conditions, including that the recipient hold a

full-time teaching position in an elementary or secondary school in this state in

which minority students constitute at least 40 percent of the membership and that

the recipient receive certain effectiveness ratings in his or her teaching work.

This bill requires HEAB to provide notice of the minority teacher loan program

to all incoming freshmen and transfer students at all institutions of higher education

in this state that have a state superintendent of public instruction-approved teacher

preparatory program. The bill also requires HEAB to provide an annual report to

the education-related standing committees of the legislature regarding the minority

teacher loan program's participation levels, loan disbursements, and aggregate

details related to the status of all open and closed loan recipient accounts.

The bill also requires each public high school, including each charter school that

operates grade 11 or 12, to provide notice of the minority teacher loan program to

each pupil in grades 11 and 12.