2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 17 — Education
RS 17:421.1 — Applicability of graduate work to the minimum salary schedule


LA Rev Stat § 17:421.1 What's This?

§421.1. Applicability of graduate work to the minimum salary schedule

A. In determining eligibility for the minimum salary established in R.S. 17:421 for teachers who have a master's degree plus thirty graduate hours, any graduate semester hours earned before or subsequent to receiving the master's degree but which are not part of the master's program and which are earned in a regionally accredited institution of higher education shall be counted toward the required thirty graduate semester hours. No provision of this Section shall affect any credit for graduate hours given prior to September 12th, 1975 to any teacher in determining eligibility for the minimum salary established in R.S. 17:421 for teachers who have a master's degree plus thirty graduate hours.

B. For purposes of the minimum salary schedule established in R.S. 17:421.3, credit for graduate degrees or coursework will be given for a teacher whose primary responsibility is classroom teaching only when one or more of the following conditions have been met:

(1) If the teacher is employed to teach at the elementary school level, the degree, or the degree and coursework, bears more than minor relationship to the methods of teaching or one or more of the subject matters taught by that teacher.

(2) The degree, or the degree and coursework, is in or closely related to the subject matter field of the majority of classes assigned to that teacher.

(3) The teacher is assigned a majority of classes in a field or fields for which the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education certifies there is a significant teacher shortage, but this condition will not be considered to have been met if the teacher is not either certified or actively pursuing certification to teach those classes pursuant to regulations of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.

(4) The teacher who has been eligible for credit for a graduate degree, or graduate degree and coursework, is assigned involuntarily to a class or classes and by virtue of that assignment would become ineligible, but this condition will not be considered to have been met if the teacher is not either certified or actively pursuing certification to teach those classes pursuant to regulations of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.

(5) The teacher earns a graduate degree, or graduate degree and coursework, in a field related to educational administration, guidance, counseling, or personnel administration.

(6) The teacher was employed in a full-time position requiring certification in a Louisiana public school system during the 1985-1986 school year, however, the teacher shall have completed the requirements for the degree or coursework or have enrolled in a program leading to such completion not later than July 1st, 1986.

C. No teacher shall receive less salary by virtue of no longer meeting one or more of the conditions listed in Subsection B of this Section.

Added by Acts 1966, No. 430, §1; Amended by Acts 1975, No. 769, §1; Acts 1985, No. 650, §1.

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