Relating to a waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at accredited private institutions and regents institutions for students during student teaching experiences in the state

This bill relates to a waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at regents institutions and accredited private institutions for students during student teaching experiences in the state. The bill defines “student teaching” as the supervised full-time clinical instructional experience in a teacher preparation program’s final year in which the student teacher assumes responsibility for planning, instruction, and assessment in the classroom of a cooperating teacher appropriately licensed in the subject area and grade level endorsement being pursued. The bill requires institutions of higher learning under the control of the state board of regents to adopt a policy that requires the institution to waive tuition and mandatory fees for a student for the semester that the student is student teaching in the state of Iowa.183 (Iowa tuition grants program), as a condition of participation in the Iowa tuition grants program, to adopt a policy that requires the institution to waive tuition and mandatory fees for a student while the student is student teaching in the state of Iowa.