The “Increase Teachers of Color Act” in Minnesota would give millions of dollars to various programs only aimed at racial minority teachers.
The bills, in both chambers of the state legislature, would allocate $10 million to the “aspiring Minnesota teachers of color scholarship program.”
The legislative session ends next Monday, May 20.
It extends a program that first began in 2021 to “establish a scholarship pilot program to support undergraduate and graduate students who are preparing to become teachers, have demonstrated financial need, and belong to racial or ethnic groups underrepresented in the state’s teacher workforce,” according to the text of the original program.