Preparing and Retaining Educators through Partnerships Program (PREP) Allotment
House Bill 2, passed by the 89th Texas Legislature and signed into law in June 2025, established the PREP Program Allotment to strengthen the quality of teacher recruitment, preparation, and mentorship across the state. Participation in the PREP Program Allotment is optional for eligible districts and open-enrollment charters.
The PREP Program Allotment provides funding for five partnership types, PREP Mentorship, PREP Grow Your Own, PREP Preservice Residence, PREP Preservice Traditional, and PREP Preservice Alternative Certification. Districts and open-enrollment charter schools applied for school year 2026-27 funding for the PREP Preservice Residency Program, Grow Your Own Program, and the Mentorship Program through the LASO Cycle 4 process. Applications for each of these programs plus the PREP Traditional and Alternative Preservice Programs will be available through LASO Cycle 5 in fall 2026. Funding is provided via foundation school program formulas and is available for every school system in the state. Each PREP Program type includes a specific funding formula structure in statute and provides funding for up to a specific number of supported teacher candidates or employees per year per school system. For PREP Preservice Programs, the exact funding a school system would receive for an individual depends on whether the school at which the teacher works is rural and the level of socio-economic need at the school where the individual is placed. There are certain statutory requirements related to allotment spending.
Upcoming Office Hours
PREP Partnership Agreement Office Hours: 7m视频 staff will be hosting office hours to help both LEAs and EPPs as they work together on completing the statutorily required partnership agreements. These will be 鈥渃ome and go鈥 events, are targeted towards LEAs and EPPs, and will provide support with completing the partnership agreements. Times and links to join the meetings are below.
Updates (2/20/26)
During and after the PREP Kickoff Webinar #1 on Wednesday we received many questions through multiple channels. To ensure accurate and consistent guidance, we will compile them and add new FAQ to the section of the website below.
PREP Program Allotment FAQ and Overviews
Select a section header below to see the existing general FAQ or program-specific overviews.
The links below connect to the PREP FAQ from the LASO application process. Updated FAQ for each program will be posted with their respective sections as they become available.
Overview
The PREP Grow Your Own Program provides funding through which participating school systems support (1) school system employees who do not hold a teaching certificate in completing a bachelor鈥檚 degree and enrolling in a preparation program to ultimately become a certified teacher while employed by the school system and (2) high school students in completing career and technical education courses that help prepare the students to become classroom teachers. Funding may be used to implement the PREP Grow Your Own Program and pay tuition and fees for participating students or employees. For the LASO Cycle 4 application, school systems may only participate if they have been approved to participate in a PREP Residency Preservice Program.
Overview
The PREP Residency Preservice Program empowers school systems to fund paid preservice teacher residency programs, providing candidates with extensive, yearlong clinical practice under the supervision of a host teacher. The program鈥檚 allotment funding flows directly to school systems and EPPs to fund the program implementation, including candidate pay, mentor stipends, and training and administrative costs.
Overview
The PREP Mentorship Program provides districts interested in implementing high-quality new teacher mentorship programs with funding to (1) provide, at a minimum, $1,000 to the mentor teacher, (2) train all required district mentorship staff via the Texas Mentorship Training, and (3) provide release time for mentor teacher and beginning teacher mentoring activities. Any remaining funds may be used on strategic staffing training.
PREP Resources
This section will include all PREP Program Allotment resources as they become available.
Primary Audiences: school districts, educator preparation programs, and institutes of higher education
Resource | Date Available* |
|---|---|
| PREP Program Overviews, Presentation Decks, and Webinar Recordings on LASO IV Resource Page | now |
now | |
| PREP Kickoff Webinar #1 Slides | now |
| Guidance for Written Partnership Agreements | coming soon |
| District PREP Allotment Funding Calculator | 3/20 |
| PREP Program Allotment Guidebook | 4/20 |
*Date available is an estimate based on current timelines.
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