Teachers: Uplift Teaching Corps Act of 2019.

Existing law appropriates $75,000,000 from the General Fund to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing for the 2018–19 fiscal year to establish the Teacher Residency Grant Program, including $50,000,000 to provide one-time competitive grants to develop new, or expand existing, teacher residency programs that recruit and support the preparation of special education teachers, and $25,000,000 to provide one-time competitive grants to develop new, or expand existing, teacher residency programs that recruit and support the preparation of bilingual education, science, technology, engineering, or mathematics teachers. This bill would enact the Uplift Teaching Corps Act of 2019 that would establish the Uplift Teaching Corps Grant Program, to be administered by the commission, to provide one-time competitive grants to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to establish new or expand existing teacher-based residency programs for purposes of recruiting and retaining prospective resident teachers with high degrees of instructional and cultural competence to teach in high-needs schools, as provided. The bill would provide that the operation of these provisions is contingent upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act for these purposes.