This bill requires a postsecondary educational institution in the State to provide stipends to student teachers and the teachers who supervise them, referred to in the bill as cooperating teachers, in addition to mileage or travel reimbursement for student teachers.
42 The bill also requires a school administrative unit to compensate a student teacher or
43 cooperating teacher who serves as a substitute teacher for a partial or full school day in
44 addition to the stipend. If a student teacher becomes employed as a teacher at a private
45 school or at a school outside of the State upon graduation, the student teacher is responsible
46 for reimbursing the State the total amount the student teacher received as a stipend. The
47 bill provides that the State must provide funding to the University of Maine System for the
48 cost of student teacher and cooperating teacher stipends.