Section 1 Of Article 1. Interstate Agreement On Qualification Of Educational Personnel From California Education Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Part 8. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 1.
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. The designated state official of a party state may make one or
more contracts on behalf of his 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 finds that there are programs of education,
certification 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 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 certification 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 certificate or other qualifying document may
be revoked or suspended on any ground which would be sufficient for
revocation or suspension of a certificate 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.