Washington Administrative Code › Title 250 - Student Achievement Council › Chapter 250-63 - Future teachers conditional scholarship for public school classified K-12 employees › Section 250-63-020 - Program definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) "Academic
			 year" means the regular nine-month, three-quarter or two-semester period
			 annually occurring between August 1st and June 30th.
(2) "Accredited" means an institution
			 certified by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges or by a similar
			 regional accrediting body.
(3)
			 "Board" means the higher education coordinating board.
(4) "Classified public K-12 employees" means
			 employees working for K-12 schools covered by
			 chapter
			 41.56 RCW.
(5) "Conditional scholarship" means funds
			 received from The Future Teachers Conditional Scholarship for Public School
			 Classified Employees program. This is a loan that will be forgiven in exchange
			 for teaching service in Washington K-12 public schools.
(6) "Continuous enrollment" means the period
			 of time a recipient is enrolled without stopping, except for the equivalent of
			 one term per year, such as a summer term.
(7) "Forgiven" or "to forgive" or
			 "forgiveness" means that portion of the recipient's loan that does not need to
			 be repaid in exchange for the recipient having provided the specified teaching
			 service in a Washington public K-12 school.
(8) "Full-time student" means a recipient
			 enrolled for twelve or more credit hours, or the equivalent, per
			 term.
(9) "Future teachers" means
			 classified public K-12 employees who are working toward their initial teaching
			 certifications.
(10) "Institution
			 of higher education" means an accredited public or private college, community
			 college or university which physically delivers classroom instruction within
			 the state of Washington and whose program of study will advance students toward
			 teacher certification requirements at the freshman or sophomore level; or whose
			 coursework will lead to initial teaching certifications for students enrolled
			 at the junior level or higher.
(11)
			 "Loan equalization fee" means an additional amount charged to a recipient who
			 fails to complete the required teaching service. This fee is added in order to
			 make the cost of the program similar to the cost incurred by recipients
			 borrowing from the primary federal student loan program for undergraduate
			 students. This fee shall be determined annually by the board.
(12) "Loan repayment" means that portion of
			 the conditional scholarship that is not forgiven due to teaching service and is
			 instead repaid according to the terms of the promissory note by the
			 recipient.
(13) "Recipients" means
			 eligible student applicants selected to receive conditional
			 scholarships.
(14) "Shortage areas"
			 means either geographic or subject-matters areas as defined by the office of
			 the superintendent of public instruction.
(15) "Teacher certification" means the
			 initial license issued by the office of the superintendent of public
			 instruction permitting an individual to be employed as a teacher in the state
			 of Washington.
(16) "Teaching
			 service" means employment as a certified teacher in a Washington public K-12
			 school on at least a half-time basis. This also includes comparable employment
			 as a substitute teacher or part-time teaching positions.
(17) "Washington public K-12 school" means an
			 elementary school, a middle school, junior high school or high school within
			 the public school system referred to in Article IX of the state
			 Constitution.
Statutory Authority: Chapter 28B.80 RCW and 2000 2nd sp.s. c
				  1 § 610(5). 01-08-017, §
										250-63-020, filed 3/26/01,
				  effective 4/26/01.