Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF › Title 92 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › Chapter 21 - ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES AND PERMITS TO TEACH, PROVIDE SPECIAL SERVICES, AND ADMINISTER IN NEBRASKA SCHOOLS › Section 92-21-003 - General Provisions

Current through June 17, 2024
003.01
Transcripts
. All transcripts submitted pursuant to
				certification or renewal requirements must be sufficiently legible so that
				microfilm copies of them are readable.
003.02
Armed Forces
				Extension
. Upon application, the Commissioner may extend the term
				of any certificate or permit of any person who has served in the armed forces
				of the United States iii ii or the spouse of such person as provided in Neb.
				Rev. Stat. §
									79-803.
003.03
False
				Information
. Failure by an applicant to submit accurate
				information in support of an application is cause for denial or revocation of
				such certificate or permit.
003.04
Conversion of Certificates
. Any person holding a
				certificate or permit valid only in Nebraska nonpublic school systems may
				convert such certificate or permit to one valid in all Nebraska school systems,
				both public and nonpublic, upon request and payment of fee. Alternatively, a
				certificate or permit valid in both public and nonpublic Nebraska school
				systems may be converted to a certificate or permit valid only in Nebraska
				nonpublic school systems upon request and payment of a fee. In either case, the
				expiration date of the converted certificate or permit is the same as that of
				the original certificate or permit.
003.05
Fees
.
				Applicants for a certificate or permit must pay the fees as set by the
				Commissioner.
003.06
Statement Signed by Certification Officer
. A statement
				signed by a certification officer on forms provided by the Department may be
				accepted as evidence of completion of the academic requirements for issuance of
				a certificate or permit pursuant to this chapter or of an endorsement pursuant
				to 92 NAC 24. A recommended form (Institutional Verification) is available on
				the Educator Certification website.
003.07
Certificates Issued on The
				Basis of Equivalency
. The Commissioner may issue any certificate
				or permit provided for herein to an applicant who files with the office of the
				Commissioner evidence of the required qualifications or of education and
				experience equivalent to the required qualifications.
003.08
Life or Permanent
				Certificates
. For purposes of Nebraska certification. Life or
				Permanent certificates issued in another state will be considered to have
				expired five (5) years after the date of the applicant's last regular
				employment as a teacher or administrator under that certificate. The holder of
				a Life or Permanent certificate issued by the Department that submits an
				application seeking additional endorsement(s) shall have the Life or Permanent
				certificate converted to a Professional certificate with an expiration date of
				August 31 in the tenth year following the issuance of the converted
				certificate.
003.09
Master of Arts in Teaching
. The Master of Arts in
				Teaching (MAT) will be accorded equivalence with a baccalaureate degree when
				used for initial certification purposes in this chapter.
003.10
Mental
				Fitness
. To be issued a certificate or permit, an applicant must
				not have an emotional or mental incapacity to practice the profession as
				evidenced by a legal adjudication or determination thereof by other lawful
				means. Such evidence shall be any of the following:
003.10A The applicant is, at the time of the
				consideration of the applicant's fitness to hold a certificate or permit, a
				mentally ill and dangerous person under Neb. Rev. Stat. §
										71-908 as evidenced by a
				declaration or order to that effect by a mental health board of this state, or
				as evidenced by a similar finding by a similar body of another state.
003.10B The applicant is, at the time of the
				consideration of the applicant's fitness to hold a certificate or permit, a
				mentally ill individual as defined in Neb. Rev. Stat. §
										20-162 or a similar determination
				has been made by similarly qualified mental health professional(s) of another
				state.
003.10C The applicant has
				been declared by a court as mentally incompetent in relation to standing trial
				for a criminal charge pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. §§
										29-1822 or
				29-1823, or similar laws of
				another state, and has not been found by a court to have recovered from such
				incompetency.
003.10D The applicant
				has been acquitted of a criminal charge on the basis of a finding of insanity
				under Neb. Rev. Stat. §
										29-2203 or similar laws of another
				state, unless a court, subsequent to such an acquittal, has found that the
				applicant is not dangerous to himself, herself, or others by reason of mental
				illness or defect and has released such person from court ordered treatment
				pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. §§
										29-3702 and
				29-3703, or similar laws of
				another state.
003.10E A court has
				found the applicant to be an incapacitated person in need of a court appointed
				guardian pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. §§
										30-2601 and
				30-2620, or similar laws of
				another state, and no court order has been entered that the applicant's
				incapacity has terminated.
003.10F
				A court has appointed a conservator or made other protective order(s) in
				relation to the estate and property affairs of the applicant pursuant to Neb.
				Rev. Stat. §
										30-2630 or similar laws of another
				state, and no court order has been entered that the disability of the applicant
				per has ceased.