LINCOLN- All Nebraska teachers could receive an annual bonus under a proposed expansion of an existing grant program to recruit and retain teachers through 2028. Legislative Bill 411, from State Sen. George Dungan of Lincoln, would amend the Nebraska Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act, adopted in 2023, to automatically apply to all K-12 school teachers. The current law allows grants of $2,500 a year once teachers reach their second, fourth, and sixth years of teaching in the state, with retention bonuses as well for teachers in high-need subject areas.

The expanded grant amount would grow, depending on a person’s years of teaching experience. “We continue to talk about the need for public school teachers and the fact that we are woefully understaffed, and one of the things that we all agree on that would help with that is just to give them more money,” Dungan said.

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