Sec. 3. Purposes
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The purposes of this Act are as follows: To transform the profession of teaching to ensure that every school, including high-needs schools, provides a rewarding, sustainable, and successful experience for all teachers through— strengthening recruitment of excellent and diverse teacher candidates; supporting stronger teacher entry training and onboarding; and increase teacher retention rates through the provision of high quality professional development, improved working conditions, professional leadership opportunities, and improved compensation systems.
To study best practices for recruiting and retaining a diverse and excellent teacher workforce, reducing beginning teacher turnover and turnover due to low salaries, filling teacher vacancies in high-need areas and in shortage subjects, providing better pay and additional leadership opportunities to teachers, and improving working conditions and teacher satisfaction overall.