{"id":1739,"date":"2024-02-12T14:38:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T20:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2025-02-27T09:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T15:21:13","slug":"108b-lb964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/2024\/02\/12\/108b-lb964\/","title":{"rendered":"108B LB964"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Dear Members of the Education Committee:<\/p>

Lincoln Public Schools supports LB964 and requests that the Committee move the bill to General File.\u00a0 The bill will create the Special Education Teacher Forgivable Loan Program Act, and be administered by NDE to help lessen the shortage of special education teachers across the state.\u00a0 Currently, it is difficult in Lincoln to fill all of the necessary special education positions to meet the needs of our current students.\u00a0 From listening to our colleagues across the state, the issue is not just a Lincoln issue.\u00a0 It is an issue that districts across the state are facing.\u00a0 LB964 funds a program that enables NDE to enter into a contract with eligible students to receive a forgivable loan for the first five years of a teacher education program in exchange for an agreement to begin teaching within one year of graduation and teacher in the area of special education for the length of the loans provided by NDE up to the full five years.\u00a0 The importance of this legislation compared to legislation to support existing teachers is that it increases the number of available teachers in the profession and helps them through the first five years of the profession when many teachers may choose to look at another profession.<\/p>

John P. Neal
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Online Comment on LB964 – A BILL FOR AN ACT relating to teachers; to amend section 85-3004, Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement, 2022; to adopt the Special Education Teacher Forgivable Loan Program Act; to provide for scholarships under the Nebraska Career Scholarship Act; and to repeal the original section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,1],"tags":[143,54,176],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testimony","category-uncategorized","tag-108b","tag-john-neal","tag-lb964"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3863,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/3863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}