| (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, 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 the DPS that the charter school is
authorized to obtain.
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