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Title 5 - DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION |
5 CSR 50-340.019 Military Science Credit PURPOSE. This rule establishes guidelines for public school districts for the operation of a Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program. (1) A school district may establish a Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) Program on a voluntary basis as part of the regular secondary educational program. (2) The school district may provide elective credit for a JROTC course, military science on the same basis as credit given for other elective courses. (3) Credit may be given only for those courses taught by teachers with a Missouri teaching certificate in military science. (4) Officers and noncommissioned officers with a baccalaureate degree and a request from the employing school district will be certificated for military science by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. These certificated personnel shall be paid from the teachers' fund. (5) School districts operating JROTC programs may request a special two (2)-year teaching certificate in military science for military personnel without baccalaureate degrees. Renewal of this two (2)-year certificate will require the earning of a minimum of eight (8) semester hours of appropriate credit from an accredited higher education institution. (6) Noncertificated personnel in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Program may assist certificated personnel in the ROTC Program in the same manner that teacher aides assist certificated teachers. Noncertificated personnel shall be paid from the incidental fund. AUTHORITY: section 161.092, RSMo (1986).* Original rule filed Nov. 5, 1969, effective Nov. 15, 1969. *Original authority 1963, amended 1973. |