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6-81-609. Dual licensure funding.
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6-81-609. Dual licensure funding.
(a)(1)(A) A classroom teacher employed by a school district in the state may receive a reimbursement from the Dual Licensure Incentive Program if the classroom teacher returns to an approved institution of higher education to obtain licensure in an additional subject area:
(i) Declared to be a shortage area by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education;
(ii) That the classroom teacher is currently teaching but for which he or she does not have a licensure; or
(iii) And grade level in which the school district has requested a waiver under § 6-17-309.
(B)(i) A reimbursement from the Dual Licensure Incentive Program shall include funding for the cost of tuition, books, and fees not to exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000) each college year.
(ii) The amount of the reimbursement and the number of reimbursement recipients selected by the Division of Higher Education is contingent on the appropriation and availability of funding for such a purpose.
(2) To be eligible for a reimbursement under the program, the person shall be:
(A) Employed as a classroom teacher for no less than three (3) years of teaching immediately preceding the application; and
(B) Accepted for enrollment in a classroom teacher education program that will lead to a licensure to teach in a subject area that:
(i) Is different from the classroom teacher's current area of licensure; and
(ii) Either:
(a) Has been identified as a subject area with a shortage of classroom teachers as declared by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education; or
(b) Is in the grade level and subject matter area for which the school district has requested a waiver under § 6-17-309.
(b)(1) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall promulgate rule
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-81-609
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6-81-609. Dual licensure funding.
(a)(1)(A) A classroom teacher employed by a school district in the state may receive a reimbursement from the Dual Licensure Incentive Program if the classroom teacher returns to an approved institution of higher education to obtain licensure in an additional subject area:
(i) Declared to be a shortage area by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education;
(ii) That the classroom teacher is currently teaching but for which he or she does not have a licensure; or
(iii) And grade level in which the school district has requested a waiver under § 6-17-309.
(B)(i) A reimbursement from the Dual Licensure Incentive Program shall include funding for the cost of tuition, books, and fees not to exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000) each college year.
(ii) The amount of the reimbursement and the number of reimbursement recipients selected by the Division of Higher Education is contingent on the appropriation and availability of funding for such a purpose.
(2) To be eligible for a reimbursement under the program, the person shall be:
(A) Employed as a classroom teacher for no less than three (3) years of teaching immediately preceding the application; and
(B) Accepted for enrollment in a classroom teacher education program that will lead to a licensure to teach in a subject area that:
(i) Is different from the classroom teacher's current area of licensure; and
(ii) Either:
(a) Has been identified as a subject area with a shortage of classroom teachers as declared by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education; or
(b) Is in the grade level and subject matter area for which the school district has requested a waiver under § 6-17-309.
(b)(1) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall promulgate rules as necessary to implement the program.
(2) The number of classroom teacher participants each year shall be determined by the amount of funding available for the program and the limitations set under this section.
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6-17-309. Licensure — Waiver.
(a)(1) No class of students shall be under the instruction of a teacher who is not licensed to teach the grade level or subject matter of the class for more than thirty (30) consecutive school days in the same class during a school year.
(2) This provision shall not apply to:
(A) Nondegreed vocational-technical teachers;
(B) Those persons approved by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education to teach the grade level or subject matter of the class in the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education's distance learning program;
(C) Those persons teaching concurrent credit courses or advanced placement courses who:
(i) Are employed by a postsecondary institution;
(ii) Meet the qualification requirements of that institution or the Division of Career and Technical Education; and
(iii) Are teaching in a course in which credit is offered by an institution of higher education or a technical institute;
(D) Licensed teachers teaching in the following settings:
(i) An alternative learning environment;
(ii) A juvenile detention facility;
(iii) A residential and day alcohol, drug, and psychiatric facility program;
(iv) An emergency youth shelter;
(v) A facility of the Division of Youth Services; or
(vi) A facility of the Division of Developmental Disabilities Services of the Department of Human Services; and
(E) A licensed special education teacher teaching two (2) or more core academic subjects exclusively to children with disabilities.
(b)(1) If this requirement imposes an undue hardship on a school district, the school district may apply to the State Board of Education for a waiver.
(2) The state board shall develop rules for granting a waiver.
(3) Any school district that obtains a waiver shall send w
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-17-309
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 6-17-309. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.