Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 160 - RULES OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › Chapter 160-5 › Subject 160-5-2 - FISCAL SERVICES DIVISION › Rule 160-5-2-.05 - Experience for Salary Purposes

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27, 2024
(1)
DEFINITIONS.
(a)
Career, Technical, and Agricultural
				Education (CTAE) -
program of study featuring concentrations developed to
				provide students rigorous core elements, performance standards, and skills
				necessary after high school graduation to go straight into the workforce or
				postsecondary educational programs. (This may include programs such as
				agriculture, construction, business and computer, culinary arts, healthcare
				science, transportation and others.)
(b)
Certified Personnel
-individuals trained in education who hold Teaching (T), Leadership (L),
				Service (S), Technical Specialist (TS), or Permit (P) certification issued by
				the Georgia Professional Standards Commission.
(c)
Charter school
- a public
				school that is operating under the terms of a charter, including, but not
				limited to, charter schools authorized by the Georgia Charter School Commission
				and charter schools not operating under a local board of education.
(d)
Clear Renewable Certificate
- the certificate issued by the Georgia Professional Standards
				Commission which indicates all Special Georgia Requirements and other
				conditions have been met.
(e)
Creditable Year of Experience
- a year of experience that meets
				the requirements of this rule.
(f)
Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE)
- the state agency charged
				with the fiscal and administrative management of certain aspects of K-12 public
				education, including the implementation of federal and state mandates. Such
				management is subject to supervision and oversight by the State Board of
				Education.
(g)
Georgia
				Professional Standards Commission (PSC)
- the state agency created by
				O.C.G.A. §
										20-2-983 and authorized to assume
				full responsibility for the certification, preparation and conduct of
				certified, licensed or permitted personnel employed in Georgia, and the
				development and administration of teacher certification testing.
(h)
Governor's Office of Student
				Achievement (GOSA)
- the state agency mandated by O.C.G.A. §
										20-14-26 to create a uniform
				performance-based accountability system for K-12 public schools that
				incorporates both state and federal mandates, including student and school
				performance standards.
(i)
Investing in Educational Excellence (IE2) -
local education agency
				that contracts for flexibility, and accountability that allows LEAs to request
				increased flexibility from certain state laws, rules, and regulations in
				exchange for increased accountability and defined consequences through a
				contractual agreement with the State Board of Education under O.C.G.A. §
										20-2-80.
(j)
Leadership Position
- a
				position in which an individual has the authority and/or responsibility, in a
				supervisory role, for LUA approved educational programs and/or personnel
				required to hold certification for their assigned job as determined by Georgia
				Professional Standards Commission (PSC).
(k)
Local Educational Agency (LEA)
- local school system pursuant to local board of education control and
				management.
(l)
Local Unit of
				Administration (LUA)
- a local education agency or a regional
				educational service agency.
(m)
Recognized Accrediting Agency
- an entity, recognized by the U.S.
				Department of Education (US ED), responsible for granting accreditation to
				public and private schools and school districts throughout the United States,
				or the Georgia Accrediting Commission (GAC).
(n)
Regional Educational Service
				Agencies (RESAs)
- an agency established under O.C.G.A. §
										20-2-270 to provide shared
				services to improve the effectiveness of educational programs and services of
				LEAs and to provide direct instructional programs to selected public school
				students.
(o)
Salary Schedule
				Categories BT and T
- The two categories on the State Salary Schedule
				referred to as BT and T that correspond to the certified personnel's
				certificate title held. Placement in the BT category is determined by
				certificate titles where content requirements have been completed for the field
				but pedagogy requirements have not been completed, with the exception of
				Special Georgia Requirements. An example of an educator who would be placed on
				the BT category of the State Salary Schedule would be a teacher who had a
				Bachelor's degree in Math (met content requirement) but had not yet completed
				their teacher preparation program through either a college or any of the
				alternate routes (not met pedagogy requirement). All other certificate titles
				issued by the PSC shall be paid according to the T category of the State Salary
				Schedule. Certified personnel holding at least one category T certificate title
				are paid according to the T category. It should be noted that the "B" in the BT
				column was the letter used to represent the former "provisional" certificate
				title that is not currently used.
(p)
Salary Step
- The column on
				the State Salary Schedule that corresponds to certified personnel's creditable
				years of experience.
(q)
State Board of Education (SBOE)
- constitutional authority which
				defines education policy for public K-12 education agencies in Georgia.
(r)
State Salary Schedule
- the document developed pursuant to O.C.G.A. §
										20-2-212 that details the minimum
				state salary for certified personnel that has been approved by the State Board
				of Education and funded by the Georgia General Assembly.
(s)
State Supplement
- any
				salary enhancement or stipend that certified personnel are to receive by state
				law or State Board of Education rule in addition to the salary the certified
				personnel are entitled to receive as set by the State Salary Schedule.