Citations Affected: IC 20-6.1.
Synopsis: Teacher compensation. Provides a method to allow school
corporations to count the number of course credit hours and the
graduate degrees attributable to individual teachers for purposes of
providing teachers' salaries, compensation, and other benefits. Requires
recognition of course credits and graduate degrees that are approved by
the professional standards board. Allows recognition of courses and
graduate degrees that are not approved by the professional standards
board. Provides equivalent salary, compensation, and benefits for
teachers who hold master's degrees and teachers who have 36 hours of
approved academic credit. Allows a school corporation to provide
equivalent salary, compensation, and benefits for teachers who hold
master's degrees and teachers who have not less than 30 hours of
academic credit.
Effective: July 1, 2000.
January 10, 2000, read first time and referred to Committee on Education.
January 26, 2000, amended, reported _ Do Pass.
February 1, 2000, read second time, amended, ordered engrossed.
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
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undergraduate degree.
(2) A school corporation may elect to count in the number of
credit hours attributable to an individual teacher any credit
hours that a teacher earns beyond an undergraduate degree
that are not approved academic credit.
(3) A school corporation shall recognize an approved
graduate degree that a teacher earns.
(4) A school corporation may elect to recognize a graduate
degree that a teacher earns that is not an approved graduate
degree.
(5) A school corporation shall recognize as equivalent:
(A) a teacher who earns a master's degree; and
(B) a teacher who earns not more than thirty-six (36) hours
of approved academic credit.
(6) A school corporation may elect to recognize as equivalent:
(A) a teacher who earns a master's degree; and
(B) a teacher who earns not less than thirty (30) credit
hours beyond an undergraduate degree that are either
approved or not approved academic credit.
(7) A school corporation shall count in the number of credit
hours attributable to an individual teacher all hours of
approved academic credit that the teacher earns in courses
beyond:
(A) a master's degree; or
(B) not more than thirty-six (36) hours of approved
academic credit above an undergraduate degree.
(8) A school corporation may elect to count in the number of
credit hours attributable to an individual teacher any credit
hours that the teacher earns that are either approved or not
approved academic credit in courses beyond:
(A) a master's degree; or
(B) not less than thirty (30) hours of credit above an
undergraduate degree.
(e) Compensation for continuing education or professional
development activities which are required in order to obtain or
retain a teacher license shall be determined in accordance with the
provisions of IC 20-7.5. Nothing shall limit the rights of the school
employer or the exclusive representative to mutually establish
through the provisions of IC 20-7.5 compensation for continuing
education or professional development activities which are in
addition to requirements to obtain or retain a teaching license.