2012 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 15 Education
15-941 Teacher experience index; computation; definition

15-941. Teacher experience index; computation; definition

A. The teacher experience index for each school district shall be computed as follows:

1. For the school district:

Number of FTE

years of

experience of

Number of years Number of FTE certified of experience certified teachers teachers___ 1 x ____ = ____ 2 x ____ = ____ 3 x ____ = ____ 4 x ____ = ____ 5 x ____ = ____ 6 x ____ = ____ 7 x ____ = ____ 8 x ____ = ____ 9 x ____ = ____ 10 x ____ = ____ 11 x ____ = ____ 12 x ____ = ____ 13 x ____ = ____ 14 x ____ = ____ 15 (or more) x ____ = ____ Total A B

2. Divide total B by total A to determine the average number of FTE years of experience of FTE certified teachers in the school district.

3. For the state:

Number of FTE

years of

experience of

Number of years Number of FTE certified of experience certified teachers teachers___ 1 x ____ = ____ 2 x ____ = ____ 3 x ____ = ____ 4 x ____ = ____ 5 x ____ = ____ 6 x ____ = ____ 7 x ____ = ____ 8 x ____ = ____ 9 x ____ = ____ 10 x ____ = ____ 11 x ____ = ____ 12 x ____ = ____ 13 x ____ = ____ 14 x ____ = ____ 15 (or more) x ____ = ____ Total C D

4. Divide total D by total C to determine the average number of FTE years of experience of FTE certified teachers in the state.

5. Subtract the quotient obtained in paragraph 4 from the quotient obtained in paragraph 2 and multiply the remainder by 0.0225.

6. Add 1.00 to the product obtained in paragraph 5.

B. Librarians, guidance counselors, curriculum coordinators and other personnel who do not conduct regularly scheduled classes shall not be included as certified teachers and shall be coded separately from certified teachers in the uniform system of financial records.

C. Each school district shall on or before October 15 submit to the superintendent of public instruction in electronic format the data prescribed in subsection A, paragraphs 1 and 2 for the current year. The superintendent of public instruction shall use the data to compute the teacher experience index of each school district for the budget year.

D. The superintendent of public instruction shall on or before March 15 notify each school district of its teacher experience index for the budget year. Between March 15 and April 15, a school district may submit corrections to data that it submitted pursuant to subsection C and the superintendent of public instruction on or before April 15 shall recompute the teacher experience index for the district for the budget year using the corrected data. The teacher experience index for a school district that does not submit data corrections between March 15 and April 15 shall be the teacher experience index computed for the district by the superintendent of public instruction on or before March 15. A school district that submits data corrections pursuant to this subsection shall submit a letter explaining the need for the corrections to the superintendent of public instruction and the chairman of the joint legislative budget committee. The teacher experience index for the budget year shall not be recalculated after April 15 unless the superintendent of public instruction determines that the school district has submitted data resulting in an overstatement of the teacher experience index for the budget year.

E. For the purposes of this section, "number of years of experience" means the number of years of classroom instruction conducted by a certified teacher in the school district in which the certified teacher is currently employed, including the number of years of experience of the certified teacher granted by the school district for the certified teacher on the district's salary schedule for experience outside of the school district.