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Utah's Grow Your Own Educator Pipeline Program currently provides competitive grants to school districts and charter schools so they can offer scholarships to paraprofessionals, teachers who came up through the program, and students studying to become school counselors, school psychologists, or school social workers, helping cover costs like tuition, books, fees, and licensing exams. This bill would add a new category of eligible recipient: licensed teachers who want to earn a special education endorsement, allowing them to qualify for these scholarships even if they didn't previously come up through the program as a paraprofessional. The bill also adds a formal definition of "special education teacher" to the law and makes related technical updates to the program's language.