53A-6-204 - Contracts for acceptance of educational personnel.
53A-6-204. Contracts for acceptance of educational personnel.
(1) The designated state official of a party state may make one or more contracts onbehalf of his state with one or more other party states providing for the acceptance of educationalpersonnel. Any such contract for the period of its duration shall be applicable to and binding onthe states whose designated state officials enter into it, and the subdivisions of those states, withthe same force and effect as if incorporated in this compact. A designated state official may enterinto a contract pursuant to this section only with states in which he finds that there are programsof education, certification standards or other acceptable qualifications that assure preparation orqualification of educational personnel on a basis sufficiently comparable, even though notidentical to that prevailing in his own state.
(2) Any such contract shall provide for:
(a) its duration;
(b) the criteria to be applied by an originating state in qualifying educational personnel foracceptance by a receiving state;
(c) such waivers, substitutions, and conditional acceptances as shall aid the practicaleffectuation of the contract without sacrifice of basic educational standards; and
(d) any other necessary matters.
(3) No contract made pursuant to this compact shall be for a term longer than five yearsbut any such contract may be renewed for like or lesser periods.
(4) Any contract dealing with acceptance of educational personnel on the basis of theirhaving completed an educational program shall specify the earliest date or dates on whichoriginating state approval of the program or programs involved can have occurred. No contractmade pursuant to this compact shall require acceptance by a receiving state of any personsqualified because of successful completion of a program prior to January 1, 1954.
(5) The certification or other acceptance of a person who has been accepted pursuant tothe terms of a contract shall not be revoked or otherwise impaired because the contract hasexpired or been terminated. However, any certificate or other qualifying document may berevoked or suspended on any ground which would be sufficient for revocation or suspension of acertificate or other qualifying document initially granted or approved in the receiving state.
(6) A contract committee composed of the designated state officials of the contractingstates or their representatives shall keep the contract under continuous review, study means ofimproving its administration, and report no less frequently than once a year to the heads of theappropriate education agencies of the contracting states.
Enacted by Chapter 2, 1988 General Session