TITLE 17. EDUCATION

 CHAPTER 2. TEACHERS AND EMPLOYEES

 PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS

17:421.6    Adjustments in salaries of teachers having certificates issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

A. (1) Effective for the 1999-2000 school year and thereafter, a full-time teacher who holds both a valid Louisiana regular teaching certificate approved by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and a valid certificate issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and who is employed by a school board to provide instruction to students shall receive from the school board, in addition to his annual salary as provided by law and school board policy, an annual amount of not less than five thousand dollars with such additional amount to be distributed in the same manner as the annual salary.  For any teacher awarded the certificate issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards during the 1999-2000 school year or thereafter, such additional amount shall be paid to the teacher beginning in the school year immediately following the school year in which the teacher is awarded the certificate.

(2) Effective for the 2001-2002 school year and thereafter, a school administrator who holds both a valid Louisiana regular teaching certificate approved by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and a valid certificate issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards which was earned while teaching and who is employed by a school board shall receive the same salary adjustment as provided for teachers in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection.

B. Subject to the appropriation of funds for this purpose, the amount of the salary adjustment provided by a school board to a teacher or school administrator pursuant to the provisions of this Section shall be reimbursed to the school board annually by the state Department of Education.  However, no such reimbursement shall exceed five thousand dollars per year per teacher or school administrator, including retirement benefits.

C. In addition to any other requirements of this Section, to receive the salary adjustment provided by this Section, an otherwise eligible person shall have been awarded the initial certificate issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards prior to July 1, 2013.  However, the employing school board may, but shall not be required to, pay the additional amount to an otherwise eligible person who was awarded the initial credential issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards on or after July 1, 2013.

D. For the purposes of this Section, school board shall mean the governing authority of any public elementary or secondary school.

Added by Acts 1999, No. 975, § 1, eff. July 9, 1999.  Amended by Acts 2001, No. 42, § 1;  Acts 2001, No. 312, § 1, eff. June 6, 2001;  Acts 2006, No. 253, § 1;  Acts 2013, No. 319, § 1.