FINAL BILL REPORT

 

 

                                    HB 2245

 

 

                                 C 16 L 89 E1

 

 

BYRepresentative Locke

 

 

Changing provisions relating to basic education salary allocations.

 

 

                              SYNOPSIS AS ENACTED

 

BACKGROUND:

 

Beginning in 1992, new candidates for professional-level teaching certificates will be required to have a masters degree in teaching or a masters degree in the arts, sciences, and/or humanities.  Initial-level teaching certificates, which do not require a masters degree, are valid for two years with extensions possible for up to seven years.  The masters requirement does not apply to teachers who currently hold continuing (or professional-level) certificates.

 

During the 1987-89 biennium, the statewide schedule used to allocate funding for teachers' salaries has provided lower salary allocations for teachers with masters degrees than for teachers with 135 post-graduate quarter hour credits but no masters degree.

 

SUMMARY:

 

After January 1, 1992, no more than 90 post-graduate quarter hour credits may be counted to generate state funding for instructional staff salaries unless the employee has a masters degree or had previously been funded recognizing the higher number of credits.

 

 

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

 

      House 95   1

      Senate    41     3

 

EFFECTIVE:August 9, 1989