Sec. 10-145j. Employment of national corps of teachers' training program graduates.
Sec. 10-145j. Employment of national corps of teachers' training program
graduates. (a) The Department of Education may permit qualified graduates of a national corps of teachers' training program, approved by the Commissioner of Education,
to be employed in public schools located in the towns of Bridgeport, Hartford and New
Haven.
(b) Such persons may only be employed in a position at the elementary or secondary
level where no certified teacher suitable to the position is available. Such persons shall
(1) be enrolled in a planned program leading to certification in the subject area they are
teaching, or enrolled in an approved alternate route to certification program or a program
with state approval pending and that meets the standards for an alternate route to certification program, and (2) have completed at least twelve semester hours of credit or have
passed the assessment approved by the State Board of Education in the subject area they
will teach. The State Board of Education may grant a durational shortage area permit,
endorsed consistent with this section, to a person who meets the qualifications for such
permit as modified by this section. In granting such permits, the board shall give priority
to addressing the needs of the schools operated by the boards of education for the towns
of Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven, and then to the needs of state charter schools
located in such towns. Such permit shall be valid for one year and shall be renewable
once.
(P.A. 06-192, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 06-192 effective July 1, 2006.