SECTION 100.1212. Personnel

(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.

Source Note: The provisions of this §100.1212 adopted to be effective August 28, 2019, 44 TexReg 4478