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Read. Follow. Verify.North Carolina creates the Hometown Teacher Grant Program to provide $500 monthly salary supplements for local graduates
Last action · April 16, 2025: Re-ref to the Com on Education - K-12, if favorable, Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House (House action)Sponsors: Matthew Winslow and 8 others
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What This Bill Would Do
North Carolina establishes the Hometown Teacher Grant Program, providing eligible teachers who return to teach in their home with a monthly salary supplement of $500. The Department of Public Instruction receives a recurring of $10,000,000 per for the 2025-2027 biennium to fund the program beginning July 1, 2025.
s receive grant funding to pay monthly salary supplements to qualifying teachers who commit to working in the same school district where they attended or graduated from high school.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Eligible teachers
Eligible teachers receive a monthly salary supplement of $500 upon entering an agreement to remain employed in their home local school administrative unit.
Local school administrative units
Local school administrative units apply for grants to award salary supplements and must promote the program to high school students.
Department of Public Instruction
The Department is tasked with establishing the program, setting participation criteria, adopting standards, and reporting annually to the General Assembly.
Key Facts
- The Department of Public Instruction is required to establish the Hometown Teacher Grant Program to provide grants for teacher salary supplements.
- An eligible student is defined as someone who attended school for five years at a school in, or graduated from a high school in, a local school administrative unit.
- An eligible teacher is an eligible student who agrees to remain employed as a teacher in a school within the same local school administrative unit.
- Participating eligible teachers receive a monthly salary supplement of $500 while remaining in compliance with the employment agreement.
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- Local boards of education receiving grants must make efforts to promote the program to high school students.
- The Department must report annually by May 15, 2026, to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee on award funds, demographics, recipient numbers by district, placement rates, and program recommendations.
- The sum of $10,000,000 is appropriated in recurring funds from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction for each fiscal year of the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium.
- The act becomes effective July 1, 2025, and applies to eligible teachers entering agreements on or after that date.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
6 actions- Apr 16, 2025HouseRe-ref to the Com on Education - K-12, if favorable, Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
- Apr 16, 2025HouseWithdrawn From Com
- Apr 16, 2025HouseSerial Referral To Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House Stricken
- Apr 14, 2025HouseRef to the Com on Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
- Apr 14, 2025HousePassed 1st Reading
- Apr 10, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
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Targeted Retention Incentive
The legislation ties financial incentives directly to geographic retention, requiring teachers to work in the exact local school administrative unit where they attended school or graduated.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance75How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy20Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz40Current news / social attention level
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