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161.1211 Classification of teachers.
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The Education Professional Standards Board shall rank teachers as follows:
Rank I. Those holding regular certificates and who have a master's degree in a
subject field approved by the Education Professional Standards Board or
equivalent continuing education and who have earned thirty (30)
semester hours of approved graduate work or equivalent continuing
education; or those teachers who have met the requirements for Rank II
and earned initial certification of the National Board for Professional
Teaching Standards. The board shall not allow a teacher who qualified for
Rank I status on the basis of his or her national board certification to
maintain that classification if the national board certificate is revoked for
misconduct or voided for other reasons.
Rank II. Those holding regular certificates and who have a master's degree in a
subject field approved by the Education Professional Standards Board or
equivalent continuing education.
Rank III.
Those holding regular certificates and who have an approved
four (4) year college degree or the equivalent.
Rank IV.
Those holding emergency certificates and who have ninety-six
(96) to one hundred twenty-eight (128) semester hours of approved
college training or the equivalent.
Rank V.
Those holding emergency certificates and who have sixty-four (64) to
ninety-five (95) semester hours of approved college training or the
equivalent.
In determining ranks, the Education Professional Standards Board shall
classify teachers who hold valid certificates in the respective ranks according to
approved college semester hours of credit or equivalent continuing education.
The board, in defining preparation for certain types of vocational teachers as
equivalent to college training, shall give consideration to apprenticeship training
and industrial experience.
For purposes of the state salary schedule only as referenced in KRS 158.070,
rank shall be determined on September 15 of each year.
Nothing in this section shall allow the Education Professional Standards Board
by regulation to reclassify downward any teachers in Ranks II or I.
Effective:July 12, 2006
History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 87, sec. 1, effective July 12, 2006. -- Created
2000 Ky. Acts ch. 527, sec. 7, effective July 14, 2000.
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