1. Employment. No A public school or private school approved for tuition purposes under section 2901, subsection 2, paragraph B may not employ a provisional teacher or the holder of a senior life educator certificate unless it has an approved, locally designed, support system or has received specific authorization from the commissioner in accordance with state board rules.

Sec. 3. 20-A MRSA §13016, sub-§5 is enacted to read:

5.__Senior life educator certificate.__A senior life educator certificate may be renewed for 2-year periods in accordance with state board rules, which must require at a minimum that the senior life educator complete at least 6 hours of in-service training designed to improve the performance of the educator in the area of endorsement under section 13014-A, subsection 3 and that the senior life educator have an approved, locally designed support system in accordance with section 13015.

SUMMARY

This bill allows an individual who does not have a teaching certificate but has life experience and a master's degree or above to be issued a senior life educator certificate.