19 Tex. Admin. Code § 100.1212 - Personnel
(a) Minimum qualifications. Except as
provided by subsection (b) of this section, all persons employed as a principal
or teacher by an open-enrollment charter school must hold a baccalaureate
degree.
(b) Exception. In an
open-enrollment charter school that serves youth referred to or placed in a
residential trade center by a local or state agency, a person may be employed
as a teacher for a noncore vocational course without holding a baccalaureate
degree if the person has:
(1) demonstrated
subject matter expertise related to the subject taught, such as professional
work experience; formal training and education; holding a relevant active
professional industry license, certification, or registration; or any
combination of work experience, training and education, and industry license,
certification, or registration; and
(2) received at least 20 hours of classroom
management training, as determined by the governing body of the open-enrollment
charter school. Documentation of the training is to be maintained locally and
provided to the Texas Education Agency within 10 business days upon
request.
(c)
Certification. Special education teachers, prekindergarten teachers, bilingual
teachers, and teachers of English as a second language must be certified in the
fields in which they are assigned to teach as required by state and/or federal
law.
(d) Paraprofessionals. All
persons employed as paraprofessionals must be certified as required to meet
state and/or federal law.
(e)
Criminal history. A charter school shall obtain from the Department of Public
Safety (DPS), prior to the hiring of personnel and at least every third year
thereafter, all criminal history record information maintained by DPS that the
charter school is authorized to obtain.
(f) Do not hire registry. A charter school is
prohibited from hiring personnel who are not eligible for hire in a Texas
public school if they are listed on the Registry of Persons Not Eligible for
Employment in Public Schools.
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