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Texas Education Code - Section 21.055. School District Teaching Permit

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§ 21.055. SCHOOL DISTRICT TEACHING PERMIT.  (a) As 
provided by this section, a school district may issue a school 
district teaching permit and employ as a teacher a person who does 
not hold a teaching certificate issued by the board.
	(b)  To be eligible for a school district teaching permit 
under this section, a person must hold a baccalaureate degree.  This 
subsection does not apply to a person who will teach only career and 
technology education.
	(c)  Promptly after employing a person under this section, a 
school district shall send to the commissioner a written statement 
identifying the person, the person's qualifications as a teacher, 
and the subject or class the person will teach.  The person may 
teach the subject or class pending action by the commissioner.
	(d)  Not later than the 30th day after the date the 
commissioner receives the statement under Subsection (c), the 
commissioner may inform the district in writing that the 
commissioner finds the person is not qualified to teach.  The person 
may not teach if the commissioner finds the person is not qualified.  
If the commissioner fails to act within the time prescribed by this 
subsection, the district may issue to the person a school district 
teaching permit and the person may teach the subject or class 
identified in the statement.
	(e)  A person authorized to teach under this section may not 
teach in another school district unless that district complies with 
this section.  A school district teaching permit remains valid 
unless the district issuing the permit revokes it for cause.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. May 30, 1995.            

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