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Subchapter
001
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INTERSTATE AGREEMENT ON QUALIFICATION OF EDUCATIONAL PERSONNEL
(Cite as: 16 V.S.A. § 2043)
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§ 2043. Interstate educational personnel contracts—Article III
1. The designated State official of a party State may make one or more contracts on behalf
of his or her State with one or more other party States providing for the acceptance
of educational personnel. Any such contract for the period of its duration shall
be applicable to and binding on the States whose designated state officials enter
into it, and the subdivisions of those States, with the same force and effect as if
incorporated in this Agreement. A designated state official may enter into a contract
pursuant to this Article only with States in which he or she finds that there are
programs of education, licensing standards, or other acceptable qualifications that
assure preparation or qualification of educational personnel on a basis sufficiently
comparable, even though not identical to that prevailing in his or her 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
for acceptance by a receiving State.
(c) Such waivers, substitutions, and conditional acceptances as shall aid the practical
effectuation of the contract without sacrifice of basic educational standards.
(d) Any other necessary matters.
3. No contract made pursuant to this Agreement shall be for a term longer than five years
but any such contract may be renewed for like or lesser periods.
4. Any contract dealing with acceptance of educational personnel on the basis of their
having completed an educational program shall specify the earliest date or dates on
which originating state approval of the program or programs involved can have occurred.
No contract made pursuant to this Agreement shall require acceptance by a receiving
State of any persons qualified because of successful completion of a program prior
to January 1, 1954.
5. The license or other acceptance of a person who has been accepted pursuant to the
terms of a contract shall not be revoked or otherwise impaired because the contract
has expired or been terminated. However, any license or other qualifying document
may be revoked or suspended on any ground which would be sufficient for revocation
or suspension of a license or other qualifying document initially granted or approved
in the receiving State.
6. A contract committee composed of the designated state officials of the contracting
States or their representatives shall keep the contract under continuous review, study
means of improving its administration, and report no less frequently than once a year
to the heads of the appropriate education agencies of the contracting States. (Added 1969, No. 8, § 1 (Art. III); amended 1989, No. 118, § 3.)