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70 OK Stat § 70-6-104.5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-6-104.5. Exhausted sick leave - Unused sick leave upon termination.

|A. If, after exhausting all sick leave, a teacher is absent from his or her duties due to personal accidental injury, illness or pregnancy, the teacher shall receive for a period of not to exceed twenty (20) days his or her full contract salary less the amount: |1. actually paid a certified substitute teacher for his or her position if a certified substitute teacher is hired; or2. normally paid a certified substitute teacher for his or her position if a certified substitute teacher is not hired.B. The district's plan may provide that the teacher is entitled to payment for accrued but unused sick leave upon termination of employment.Amended by Laws 1985, c. 14, § 1, operative July 1, 1985.
70 OK Stat § 70-6-104.7 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-6-104.7. National disaster leave.

|A. The board of education of each school district may grant leave with pay not to exceed fifteen (15) working days to a district employee who is affected by a presidentially declared national disaster in Oklahoma after May 1, 1999, if: |1. The employee suffered a physical injury as a result of the disaster;2. A relative or household member of the employee suffered a physical injury or died as a result of the disaster; or3. The domicile of the employee or the domicile of a relative of the employee was damaged or destroyed as a result of the disaster.B. As used in this section:1. “Relative of the employee” shall be limited to the spouse, child, stepchild, grandchild, grandparent, stepparent, or parent of the employee; and2. “Household members” means those persons who reside in the same home, who have reciprocal duties to and do provide financial support for one another. This term shall include foster children and legal wards even if they do not live in the household. The term does not include persons sharing the same general house, when the living style is primarily that of a dormitory or commune.C. The authority to grant leave with pay pursuant to subsection A of this section shall extend for a period of not more than six (6) months after the date of a presidentially declared national disaster.D. Annual leave, sick leave, or compensatory time which was charged to a school district employee as a result of the presidentially declared national disaster resulting from the May 3, 1999, tornadoes that would have otherwise been eligible for the leave provision in subsection A of this section, may be reinstated by the governing body. A school district employee entitled to leave with pay pursuant to this section who was charged leave without pay shall be compensated at the base rate of pay of the employee.E. A district board of education may amend an existing leave sharing program or establish a leave sharing program to allow district employees to share sick or annual leave with district employees who are eligible for leave pursuant to subsection A of this section. The disaster-related leave sharing plan shall be subject to the following conditions:1. An employee eligible for disaster-related leave may receive up to fifteen (15) days donated leave;2. The donated leave must be used for disaster-related injuries or matters;3. The eligible employee shall not be required to take or exhaust any of the employee’s regular sick, personal, or emergency leave in order to receive donated leave;4. Donated leave may be used to reinstate regular emergency, sick, or personal leave an employee used after May 1, 1999, for disaster-related injuries or matters;5. An eligible employee who was required to take leave without pay for disaster-related injuries or matters may be compensated for up to fifteen (15) days if leave is donated to cover the leave without pay; and6. The district may require documentation to support a request to use donated leave pursuant to this section.Added by Laws 1999, c. 306, § 6, eff. July 1, 1999.
70 OK Stat § 70-6-105A (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-6-105A. Construction of agreements

|Nothing in this act shall be construed to annul, modify or to preclude the renewal or continuation of any existing agreement heretofore entered into between any school district and any organizational representative of its employees. |Added by Laws 1976, c. 286, § 4, operative July 1, 1976.
70 OK Stat § 70-6-106 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-6-106. Salary - Twelve monthly payments.

|Boards of education are hereby authorized to contract with and pay all teachers in their respective districts in twelve (12) monthly payments or fractional parts of the fiscal year, to be made on the basis of legal contracts between said board and teachers. Procedures for paying teachers shall be in accordance with any plan approved by the State Department of Education. |The aggregate amount of such salary payments in any fiscal year shall be as agreed upon by the board and the teacher. Under the terms of a contract for a ten-month school year as defined in Section 1-109 of this title and made in keeping with the provisions of this section, no duties shall be expected or required of the teacher in excess of one hundred ninety (190) days; provided, nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting the making of contracts for school years of more than ten (10) months. Any district adopting this plan of payment may make it applicable to any or all teachers employed therein. Such plan shall be permissive rather than mandatory and may be discontinued at the close of any fiscal year.All salaries paid in twelve (12) installments pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be for calendar months or fractional parts thereof.Amended by Laws 1982, c. 287, § 44, operative July 1, 1982; Laws 1989, c. 335, § 18, eff. July 1, 1989.
70 OK Stat § 70-6-106.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-6-106.1. Distribution of Mentor Teacher Stipend funds.

|If funds are appropriated to the State Board of Education for Mentor Teacher Stipends, the funds shall be distributed by the Board to the school districts to provide a stipend of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for each mentor teacher as defined in Section 6-182 of this title. In addition to the distribution of the five-hundred-dollar stipend, each district shall also receive the district's contribution amount necessary to meet the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (F.I.C.A.) requirements. |Added by Laws 1995, c. 305, § 10, eff. July 1, 1995. Amended by Laws 2003, c. 415, § 29, eff. July 1, 2003.
70 OK Stat § 70-6-106.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-6-106.2. “Direct deposit system” and “employee” defined – Implementation and administration of direct deposit system.

|A. As used in this section: |1. “Direct deposit system” means a method of electronically transferring a payroll claim for an employee to a financial institution; and2. “Employee” means any certified or support employee as defined in Section 26-103 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes employed by any school district in this state.B. A school district board of education may adopt a policy implementing a direct deposit system for employees of the school district.C. No school district which chooses to implement a direct deposit system may charge any employee of that school district any fee or assessment as a result of the implementation and administration of a direct deposit system.Added by Laws 2008, c. 186, § 2, eff. July 1, 2008.
70 OK Stat § 70-6-106.3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-6-106.3. Support employee schedule of payments.

|A school district board of education, including a technology center school district board of education, may contract with and pay all support employees, as defined in Section 6-101.40 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes, monthly, semimonthly or biweekly over ten (10), eleven (11) or twelve (12) calendar months or in twelve monthly payments which may be for calendar months or fractional parts thereof in the same manner as provided for the payment of teachers in Section 6-106 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes. |Added by Laws 2013, c. 45, § 2, eff. July 1, 2013.
70 OK Stat § 70-6-107 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-6-107. Employment of person not holding valid certificate of qualification – Violation – Criminal history record check.

|A. Except for employment of a director of a public developmental research school as authorized in Section 1210.577 of this title and except as provided for in Section 6-101 of this title, it shall be unlawful for a member of the board of education of a school district to employ, approve or vote for the employment of any person to perform services for the district unless the person employed holds a valid certificate of qualification issued in accordance with the rules of the State Board of Education to perform the services the person is employed to perform. |B. The State Department of Education shall require each person offered a position within the agency that requires working directly with children to furnish fingerprints to be used for a state and national criminal history record check as defined by Section 150.9 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes.Added by Laws 1971, c. 281, § 6-107, eff. July 2, 1971. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 257, § 11, emerg. eff. May 26, 1993; Laws 2003, c. 204, § 9, eff. Nov. 1, 2003; Laws 2005, c. 185, § 2, emerg. eff. May 17, 2005.
70 OK Stat § 70-6-108 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-6-108. Certificate of qualifications - Unlawful to teach without.

|Except for service as a director of a public developmental research school and service by a faculty member of a higher education institution affiliated with a public developmental research school as specifically authorized in this act and except as provided for in Section 6-101 of this title, it shall be unlawful for any person to serve, or to contract or agree to serve, as superintendent, elementary superintendent, principal, supervisor, librarian, school nurse, classroom teacher or other instructional, supervisory or administrative employee of a school district unless the person holds a valid certificate of qualification issued in accordance with the rules of the State Board of Education to perform the services the person performs or contracts or agrees to perform. The State Board of Education shall provide for the certification of elementary superintendents. |Added by Laws 1971, c. 281, § 6-108, eff. July 2, 1971. Amended by Laws 1991, c. 16, § 5, eff. July 1, 1991; Laws 1993, c. 257, § 12, emerg. eff. May 26, 1993; Laws 2005, c. 185, § 3, emerg. eff. May 17, 2005.
70 OK Stat § 70-6-108.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-6-108.1. Expired license or certificate notice - Renewal applications.

|A. No later than October 1 of each year, the State Department of Education shall provide written notice to the last-known address of any individual who held any license or certificate issued by the State Board of Education which expired on June 30 of the same year. Notice shall also be provided to the last-known district which employed any such individual. |B. If any individual whose license or certificate issued by the State Board of Education has expired submits a renewal application and processing fee by December 31 of the year in which the license or certificate has expired, such license or certificate shall be renewed with an effective date of July 1 of the year in which the license or certificate has expired, unless other statutory basis exists for denying such renewal.C. If any individual whose license or certificate issued by the State Board of Education has expired submits a renewal application and processing fee after December 31 of the year in which the license or certificate has expired, such license or certificate shall be renewed with an effective date in accordance with State Department of Education rules, unless another statutory basis exists for denying such renewal.D. The processing fee for late renewal of a license or certificate shall not exceed one hundred fifty percent (150%) of the standard renewal processing fee for renewal applications submitted by December 31 of the year in which the license or certificate has expired, or two hundred percent (200%) of the standard renewal processing fee for renewal applications submitted after December 31 of the year in which the license or certificate has expired.Added by Laws 2015, c. 315, § 1, eff. July 1, 2015.
70 OK Stat § 70-6-110 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-6-110. Agents of school authorities - Payment or acceptance of bribes.

|It shall be unlawful and a misdemeanor for any officer or employee of the State Board of Education, a member of a board of education, or other person acting as an agent of the State Board of Education or any board of education, or of any school teacher, or of any person or organization, to pay or accept any fee, commission or remuneration of any kind or character in payment for services rendered in securing positions for teachers in any of the public schools of this state. |Laws 1971, c. 281, § 6-110, eff. July 2, 1971; Laws 1993, c. 239, § 30, eff. July 1, 1993.
70 OK Stat § 70-6-111 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-6-111. Gratuities or rewards - Unlawful to give.

|It shall be unlawful and a misdemeanor for any person to give, or agree or offer to give, any gratuity or reward in consideration that he or any other person shall be employed as a teacher in any public school of this state. |Added by Laws 1971, c. 281, § 6-111, eff. July 2, 1971.
70 OK Stat § 70-6-112 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-6-112. Teachers - Gratuities or rewards in connection with employment.

|It shall be unlawful and a misdemeanor for any person, directly or indirectly, to ask or receive, or promise to receive any gratuity or reward or promise of a gratuity or reward for employing another person as a teacher in any public school of this state or for procuring for another person employment as a teacher in any public school of this state. |Added by Laws 1971, c. 281, § 6-112, eff. July 2, 1971.
70 OK Stat § 70-6-113.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-6-113.1. Materials on effective classroom discipline techniques to be furnished.

|The State Department of Education shall provide each local board of education materials dealing with effective classroom discipline techniques as an alternative to the use of corporal punishment. |Added by Laws 1989, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 38, emerg. eff. April 25, 1990.
70 OK Stat § 70-6-115 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-6-115. Information concerning student - Violation.

|It shall be unlawful for any teacher to reveal any information concerning a student obtained by the teacher in their capacity as a teacher except as may be required in the performance of the contractual duties of the teacher or as otherwise required by law. The information may be provided to the parent or guardian of the student upon request or as otherwise required by law. Any violation of this section shall upon conviction be considered a misdemeanor. |Added by Laws 1971, c. 281, § 6-115, eff. July 2, 1971. Amended by Laws 2003, c. 430, § 3, eff. July 1, 2003.
70 OK Stat § 70-6-122.4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-6-122.4. License for Teach for America Program participant - Exemption from residency program.

|A. The State Board of Education shall issue a two-year, nonrenewable license to teach to any person who has been accepted into the Teach for America Program and has on file with the Board a current Oklahoma criminal history record from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation as well as a national criminal history record check as defined in Section 150.9 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Upon receipt of the Oklahoma criminal history record, the Board may issue a temporary license which shall be effective until receipt of the national fingerprint-based criminal history record. The person applying for a license shall be responsible for the cost of the criminal history records. |B. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Board of Education shall issue a certificate to teach to any individual who has:1. Been issued a license pursuant to subsection A of this section;2. Completed the coursework requirements established for participants of the Teach for America Program;3. Successfully passed the assessment requirements established by Teach for America for participants of the Teach for America Program; and4. Submitted an application and payment of the certification fee as prescribed by the Board.Added by Laws 2008, c. 152, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2008. Amended by Laws 2009, c. 270, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2009.
70 OK Stat § 70-6-122.5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-6-122.5. Alternative Placement teaching certificate - Troops to Teachers.

|A. The State Board of Education shall grant an Alternative Placement teaching certificate to any person: |1. Who meets the eligibility requirements for the Troops to Teachers program operated by the United States Department of Defense and managed by the Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support (DANTES); and2. Who meets the requirements set forth in Section 6-122.3 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes.B. The State Board of Education shall adopt rules to implement the provisions of this section.Added by Laws 2009, c. 89, § 1.
70 OK Stat § 70-6-122.6 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-6-122.6. Temporary teaching certificate.

|A. The State Board of Education shall issue a one-year, nonrenewable secondary or middle level certificate to teach to any person who has attained certification by an alternative teacher certification organization as set forth in subsection C of this section and has on file with the Board a current Oklahoma criminal history record from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation as well as a national criminal history record check as defined in Section 150.9 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Upon receipt of the Oklahoma criminal history record, the Board may issue a temporary certificate which shall be effective until receipt of the national fingerprint-based criminal history record. The person applying for a certificate shall be responsible for the cost of the criminal history records. |B. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6-195 of this title, teachers issued a certificate pursuant to this section shall not be subject to the requirements of the residency program, but shall participate in the mentoring program provided by the alternative teacher certification organization as set forth in subsection C of this section. Upon successful completion of such mentoring program, the teacher shall be issued a certificate to teach by the State Board of Education after completion of the application and payment of the certification fee as prescribed by the State Board of Education.C. For purposes of this section, the State Board of Education shall identify an alternative teacher certification organization that was founded with grant funding from the United States Department of Education and that developed the Passport to Teaching program, which is a certification program designed for professionals who want to change careers and become teachers. The program shall require candidates to hold a bachelor's degree, pass a professional teaching knowledge exam, pass a subject area exam, and pass a background check. The organization shall provide candidates with access to workshops, an experienced teacher-advisor, and optional access to comprehensive subject matter refresher courses. The organization shall also provide an intensive mentoring and induction program.D. The State Board of Education shall adopt rules to implement the provisions of this section.Added by Laws 2009, c. 89, § 2. Amended by Laws 2014, c. 124, § 8, eff. July 1, 2014.
70 OK Stat § 70-6-122.8 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-6-122.8. Issuance of certificates to teach in the area of mild-moderate or severe-profound disabilities or comprehensive special education.

|A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Board of Education shall issue a standard certificate in the area of mild-moderate disabilities, severe-profound disabilities or comprehensive special education to any individual who has: |1. Earned a bachelor's level college degree from an accredited institution of higher education;2. Successfully completed the prescribed coursework that may be required for a master's degree in special education from an accredited institution of higher education and any examinations required to obtain a standard certificate in mild-moderate disabilities, severe-profound disabilities or comprehensive special education;3. Successfully completed the appropriate subject area competency examination as required pursuant to Section 6-187 of this title;4. On file with the State Board of Education a national criminal history record check as required pursuant to Section 5-142 of this title; and5. Submitted an application and payment of the required certification fee.B. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an individual who holds a current standard certificate pursuant to subsection A of this section can satisfy the highly qualified teacher requirement for early childhood education or elementary education by successful completion of the early childhood education or elementary education examinations.C. To obtain standard certification in early childhood education or elementary education, the individual shall complete an appropriate teacher education program approved by the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation.Added by Laws 2013, c. 336, § 2, eff. July 1, 2013. Amended by Laws 2014, c. 120, § 2, eff. July 1, 2014; Laws 2020, c. 144, § 2, eff. July 1, 2020.
70 OK Stat § 70-6-122.9 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-6-122.9. Issuance of certificates for individuals with alternative certification to teach in the area of mild-moderate or severe-profound disabilities or comprehensive special education.

|A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Board of Education shall issue a standard certificate in the area of mild-moderate disabilities, severe-profound disabilities or comprehensive special education to any individual certified via an alternative certification route in early childhood education or elementary education who has: |1. Earned a bachelor's level college degree from an accredited institution of higher education;2. Successfully completed the mild-moderate disabilities, severe-profound disabilities or comprehensive special education competency examinations; and3. Submitted an application and payment of the required certification fee.B. Notwithstanding any other provision of law and with the exception of paraprofessionals under the Career Development areas, the State Board of Education shall issue a standard certificate in the area of mild-moderate disabilities, severe-profound disabilities or comprehensive special education to any individual certified via an alternative certification route in a core academic area, which includes Mathematics, Science, English, Language Arts, History, Foreign Language, Music, Art, Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education, who has:1. Earned a bachelor's level college degree from an accredited institution of higher education;2. Successfully completed the mild-moderate disabilities, severe-profound disabilities or comprehensive special education competency examinations; and3. Submitted an application and payment of the required certification fee.Added by Laws 2014, c. 120, § 3, eff. July 1, 2014. Amended by Laws 2020, c. 144, § 3, eff. July 1, 2020.