| (v) Beginning July 1, 2015, ROTC instructors who hold
the ROTC standard Texas classroom teaching certificate must be paid
at least according to the minimum salary schedule. Prior experience
serving as an ROTC instructor on an emergency permit shall be recognized
for salary increment purposes provided the minimum employment requirements
specified in subsection (f) of this section are met for ROTC instructors
who obtain a standard Texas classroom teaching certificate.
(B) Requirements specific to charter schools.
(i) Employment must have been in a professional capacity
as defined by subsection (a) of this section.
(ii) For salary increment purposes, educators are not
required to be certified unless they are serving in special education
or bilingual education or are required to be certified in the charter
application.
(2) State regional education service centers.
(A) Personnel employed in cooperatives for which the
education service center is acting as fiscal agency must meet the
same requirements as personnel employed in Texas public elementary
and secondary schools.
(B) All other personnel must meet the same requirements
as personnel employed in state departments of education.
(3) State departments of education. Employment must
have been in a professional capacity. For Texas department of education
employment, professional positions are defined as personnel employed
in positions starting in state pay grade classification B4/A12 and
above.
(4) Texas Department of Corrections--Windham schools.
Requirements in this subsection shall apply.
(5) Public elementary and secondary schools in all
other states of the United States or within the boundaries of any
of its territorial possessions. Employment prior to 1990-1991 must
have been on a full-time basis.
(6) Overseas schools operated by the U.S. government.
Schools operated by the United States Government for military dependents
and dependents of personnel assigned to an embassy, consulate, etc.,
are treated as public schools in other states of the U.S. and policies
pertaining to public schools in other states apply.
(7) Texas public or private colleges or universities.
(A) For private colleges and universities, accreditation
by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is required.
(B) Officer Training Corps programs conducted by accredited
colleges or universities must have been employed full-time on a faculty
status level. Beginning in 1998-1999, service as an instructor in
an agricultural extension service operated by an accredited college
or university may be recognized for salary increment purposes as long
as the person held a valid Texas teaching certificate at the time
the service was rendered.
(C) All college or university experience must be recorded
on the teacher service record. A supporting letter or form must be
attached to the teacher service record verifying that either the full-time
or part-time employment was at faculty status or its equivalent and
that the schedule of work and the pay constituted that of other similar
faculty employees. It is the responsibility of the employing school
district to secure verification of college or university experience.
(D) Hospital nursing experience shall be acceptable
provided the person held a registered nurse position with a recognized
accredited university-operated hospital listed in this subsection.
All eligible prior-year service in this area can be claimed for placement
beginning on the 2000-2001 minimum salary schedule.
(8) Texas private elementary and secondary schools.
(A) For experience prior to the 1986-1987 school year,
accreditation by the Texas Education Agency or the Southern Association
of Colleges and Schools is required.
(B) For experience in the 1986-1987, 1987-1988, and
1988-1989 school years, service shall be acceptable if the school
was accredited by the Texas Education Agency, or a recognized regional
accrediting agency.
(C) For experience in the 1989-1990 school year and
thereafter, service shall be acceptable if the school was accredited
by the Texas Private School Accreditation Commission.
(D) During the 1986-1987, 1987-1988, and 1988-1989
school years, private schools accredited by the Texas Education Agency,
a recognized regional accrediting agency, or an association recognized
by the commissioner of education will be listed in the Texas School
Directory.
(E) Beginning with the 1989-1990 school year and thereafter,
private schools accredited by the Texas Private School Accreditation
Commission will be listed in the Texas School Directory.
(F) Beginning with the 2004-2005 school year and thereafter,
private schools accredited by the Texas Private School Accreditation
Commission will be listed on the Texas Education Agency website.
(9) Non-public special education contract schools.
(A) Approval from the Texas Education Agency to provide
special education services during the year service was rendered is
required. A list of approved schools is maintained by the Texas Education
Agency and posted on the Texas Education Agency website.
(B) The person must have been certified in an area
of special education.
(10) Texas Department of State Health Services (formerly
the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation) state
hospitals and state schools.
(A) The assignment must have been in an educational
program operated in conjunction with a public school program or in
a non-educational professional capacity.
(B) Persons employed in an educational program must
have held a valid Texas teaching certificate and must have been paid
at least the state minimum salary of a teacher in a Texas public school.
(11) Texas veteran's vocational school.
(A) The assignment must have been as an instructor
or coordinator.
(B) Service during the period of July 1, 1946, through
June 30, 1955, must have been at a school under the jurisdiction of
the Texas Education Agency (this service can be verified by the agency).
(C) Service after June 30, 1955, must have been at
a veteran's vocational school operated by a Texas county board of
school trustees under the jurisdiction of the Veterans Administration.
(12) Public or private colleges and universities, and
private elementary and secondary schools in all other states in the
United States or within the boundaries of any of its territorial possessions.
(A) Employment must have been, and in the case of colleges
and universities, must be verified in the same manner as for Texas
colleges or universities.
(B) Accreditation by a recognized state or regional
accrediting agency listed in subsection (a)(15) of this section is
required. In states or territories that have no provisions for accrediting,
licensing, or approving private elementary or secondary schools, service
shall be acceptable provided the person held, while employed, a valid
teaching certificate from the state in which the school is located
or a valid Texas teaching certificate.
(C) It is the responsibility of the employing school
district or charter school to have evidence on file of the accreditation
status of private schools in other states.
(D) Hospital nursing experience shall be acceptable
provided the person held a registered nurse position with a recognized
accredited university-operated hospital listed in this subsection.
All eligible prior-year service in this area can be claimed for placement
beginning on the 2000-2001 minimum salary schedule.
(13) Foreign public or private elementary and secondary
schools, colleges, and universities.
(A) Employment in colleges or universities must be
verified in the same manner as for Texas colleges or universities.
(B) For foreign public schools, colleges, and universities,
accreditation by a recognized agency of the foreign country or by
a recognized accrediting agency in the United States is required.
(C) For foreign private schools, colleges, and universities,
accreditation must be by a recognized regional accrediting agency
listed in subsection (a)(15) of this section.
(D) The accreditation status must be verified in the
same manner as for public or private schools in the United States.
(14) United States Department of the Interior--Bureau
of Indian Affairs. Service must have been full-time.
(15) United States service academies.
(A) Employment must have been at a faculty status level
and must be verified in the same manner as other college or university
service.
(B) The service academies are as follows:
(i) Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado;
(ii) Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut;
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