2014 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XI EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES (160-186)
Chapter 168 Personnel--Teachers and Others
Section 168.430 (Repealed L. 2012 H.B. 1608 § A)

168.430. 1. The state of Missouri in an effort to improve elementary reading skills and basic student achievement in English and foreign languages, remedial reading, science and math hereby establishes the "Missouri Teacher Corps" program to improve student achievement. The department of elementary and secondary education and the department of higher education shall work together to provide staff and facilities to establish the corps and promote its success.

2. The corps shall recruit fifty college seniors of graduates each year to contract to teach in designated schools for a two-year period. No recruit shall have majored in education. Each recruit shall have a bachelor's degree upon entering the corps in English, foreign language, mathematics, science, social studies or history.

3. The corps shall:

(1) Provide dedicated, talented teachers for school districts where an inadequate supply of teachers exists and has a need for student reading improvement;

(2) Afford a structured entry into the teaching profession for outstanding liberal arts who may have never taught;

(3) Identify and nurture educational leaders for the twenty-first century.

4. The corps shall provide, with the assistance of the state colleges and universities, an eight-week intensive training institute for the recruits to provide skills needed to assist them in teaching. Upon successful completion of certification requirements, recruits shall be assigned by the corps to public school districts on the basis of local need.

5. The corps shall provide members with tuition and book allowances and housing allowance for the member's pursuance of a master of arts degree in curriculum and instruction in an evenings and weekends and summer schedule for the first two years.

6. Corps members shall be compensated as are other teachers.

7. The department of elementary and secondary education may adopt rules to implement the provisions of this section.

8. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028. This section and chapter 536 are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 1999, shall be invalid and void.