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PUBLIC LAW 85-838-AUG. 28, 1958



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Section 2, subsection (a) is amended by striking from the third gg°**-^* ^°^^ ^^' sentence "June 30, 1955" and inserting in lieu thereof "December 31, Erigibiiuy re1957"; by striking from the fourth sentence all that follows the words p^intmi^tTprom^ "master's degree" and inserting in lieu thereof "except that a person tion. possessing a bachelor's degree may be appointed on probationary or permanent status as Director of Food Services, Assistant Director of Food Services, Supervising Director of Military Science and Tactics, teacher of military science and tactics, teacher of driver training, shop teacher in the vocational education program, teacher in the junior high schools, counselor in the vocational high schools, counselor in the junior high schools, teacher in the elementary schools, school social worker, research assistant, attendance officer, child labor inspector, or census supervisor, and a person not possessing a bachelor's degree may be appointed on probationary or permanent status as shop teacher in the vocational education program if he submits acceptable evidence of equivalent training and experience in accordance with the rules of the Board"; and by striking from the fifth sentence "June 30, 1955" and inserting in lieu thereof "December 31, 1957". Section 2, subsection (b) is amended to read as follows: "Notwithstanding any provision of this Act the Board is authorized, on the written recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, to appoint or promote shop teachers in the vocational education program to salary class 18, group B, without a master's degree if they submit acceptable evidence of equivalent training and experience in accordance with the rules of the Board, and to appoint or promote such teachers to salary class 18, group C, without a master's degree if they submit acceptable evidence of equivalent training and experience in accordance with the rules of the Board, plus thirty credit hours. The Board is further authorized, on the written recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, to appoint or promote vocational shop teachers with the training and experience required for placement in salary class 18, group B, to administrative or supervisory positions in the vocational education program." Section 2, subsection (c) is amended by striking paragraph (1) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "(1) The term 'master's degree' means a master's degree granted in course by an accredited higher educational institution."; and by striking the first sentence in paragraph (2) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "The term 'plus thirty credit hours' means the equivalent of not less than thirty graduate semester hours in academic, vocational, or professional courses beyond a master's degree, representing a definite educational program satisfactory to the Board, except that in the case of a shop teacher in the vocational education program the thirty semester hours need not be graduate semester hours." Section 4 is amended to read as follows: "Each teacher, school D.C. code 31officer, and other employee in the service of the Board on January 1, salary class. 1958, who occupies a position held by him on December 31, 1957, under the provisions of this Act shall be placed in a salary class covered by section 1 of this Act as indicated at the end of this section. Any employee in group A, B, or C of his salary class on December 31, 1957, shall be assigned to the same letter group of the class to which he is transferred on January 1, 1958, except that an employee in group B on December 31, 1957, who possesses a master's degree or its equivalent as determined by the Board in accordance with subsection (b) of section 2 of this Act, plus thirty credit hours, shall be transferred to group C. Teachers college employees in salary classes 8, 13, and 16 on January 1, 1958, shall be assigned to group C. 98395-59-PT. 1-64

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