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Title 5 - DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION |
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5 CSR 80-850.030 Missouri Career Development and Teacher Excellence Plan PURPOSE: Sections 168.500--168.515, RSMo establish a career advancement program, the Missouri Career Development and Teacher Excellence Plan, referred to as the career ladder program. Participation by local school districts in the Career Ladder Program shall be voluntary. The Career Ladder Program is a matching program of variable matched rates established by statute. The general assembly makes an annual appropriation for the purpose of providing the state's share of the Career Ladder Program. This rule sets forth guidelines for local district participation in the Career Ladder Program. (1) For the purpose of this rule, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following terms shall mean: (A) Career ladder salary supplement--The district may establish a salary supplement up to fifteen hundred dollars ($1500) for Career Stage I teachers, three thousand dollars ($3000) for Career Stage II teachers and five thousand dollars ($5000) for Career Stage III teachers. The state's payment is contingent upon appropriations for this purpose; (B) Department--The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education; (C) Eligible district--A school district which has adopted a local district career ladder plan and had that plan approved by the department according to standards and procedures established in this rule; (D) Participating teacher--An individual employed full-time by a school district who is certificated under rules governing teacher certification to serve as a classroom teacher, librarian, guidance counselor, school psychological examiner, parents as teachers educator, school psychologist, special education diagnostician, or speech pathologist and is on the district salary schedule and, as verified by a school district, has met criteria established for the career ladder; and (E) School district--A school or group of schools governed by a locally elected board of education or the State Board of Education and operated at public expense. (2) The department will provide school districts a model career ladder, guidelines and criteria for school district plans which meet the requirements established by statute and this rule. (3) Each local school district desiring to participate in the Career Ladder Program shall submit an application and district plan to the Division of Urban and Teacher Education prior to July 15, 1996 and April 15 in subsequent years. (4) Upon receipt of the school district's career ladder application, the Division of Urban and Teacher Education will review plans for eligibility to participate in the variable match rate program. The local district's career ladder plan will be evaluated to determine compliance with applicable statutes and standards and procedures established in the Criteria for Local District Career Ladder Plans (Appendix A). (5) School districts will be notified of necessary modifications, eligibility or denial prior to August 1, 1996 and June 30, in subsequent years. (6) Each eligible district shall identify participating teachers on Core Data collection forms provided by the department. (7) Upon receipt of the Core Data information, the department will compile a list of participating teachers and determine the state portion of the career ladder salary supplement according to the variable matching rate provisions of the law. The department will send to each district the list of participating teachers. The district will correct as necessary, verify this list and certify its accuracy to the commissioner of education on or before March 15. (8) Upon receipt of the certified list, the department will schedule one (1) payment to occur in July in concert with regular payment of foundation program funds, contingent upon appropriations for this purpose, participating districts shall receive the appropriate reimbursement for Career Ladder Stage I in the first year of participation; Stages I and II in the second year; and Stages I, II and III in the third year. (9) Eligible districts receiving career ladder salary supplements shall pay to each teacher an amount specified in the district application not to exceed the amounts provided by section 168.515(1), RSMo. If staffing/eligibility changes occur subsequent to the certification of the career ladder entitlement which cause the district to receive more or fewer funds necessary to implement the provisions of section 168.515, RSMo, the department shall be notified, with the modifications to Career Ladder Payment form by September 1, and the department will make an offsetting correction on the ensuing payment. (10) Independent auditors retained by local districts will be responsible to examine district payroll records to determine if the proper career ladder supplemental pay has actually been paid to participating teachers as certified by the district to the department. Instances of noncompliance should be set forth in the audit report in the accountant's report on state and federal compliance. AUTHORITY: sections 168.500--168.515, RSMo (1994).* Original rule filed Feb. 26, 1986, effective May 29, 1986. Amended: Filed Aug. 31, 1992, effective April 8, 1993. Amended: Filed Sept. 27, 1995, effective March 30, 1996. *Original authority: 168.500, RSMo (1985), amended 1986, 1993; 168.505, RSMo (1985), 1993; 168.510, RSMo (1985); and 168.515, RSMo (1985), amended 1993. |
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