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2001 SESSION

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SB 1341 Local eligibility licenses for teachers.

Introduced by: H. Russell Potts, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Local eligibility licenses for teachers. Provides that teacher candidates seeking a three-year local eligibility license must not have been employed as a teacher by a Virginia local school board during the previous three years. This measure would address those teachers who have held a three-year provisional license issued by the Board of Education as well as those whose licenses have expired or have been revoked or suspended during the three-year period.

Legislation adopted by the 2000 Session authorized local school boards to issue three-year local teacher licenses. These licenses would only be valid within the issuing school division, would not entitle the holder to continuing contract status, would not be renewable, and could be conditioned upon the completion of additional training. No more than 10 percent of the classroom teachers employed by the relevant local school division may hold such local licenses, based on the number of classroom teachers employed by the school division during the preceding school year. The holder of a locally issued license would be a probationary teacher for the entire three years, would be eligible to apply for a regular license issued by the Department of Education upon satisfaction of the relevant requirements, and would be subject to and entitled to all other requirements and rights provided in law and regulation. No applicant could be issued a local license if such person is eligible to be licensed by the Department of Education.


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