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Section 22-10A-1 - Short title. - Chapter 22, Article 10A NMSA 1978 may be cited as...
Section 22-10A-2 - Definitions. - As used in the School Personnel Act: A. "child abuse"...
Section 22-10A-3 - License or certificate required; application fee; general duties. - A. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, any person...
Section 22-10A-4 - Teachers and school administrators; professional status; licensure levels; salary alignment. - A. Teaching and school administration are recognized as professions, with...
Section 22-10A-5 - Background checks; known convictions; alleged ethical misconduct; reporting required; penalty for failure to report. - A. An applicant for initial licensure shall be fingerprinted only...
Section 22-10A-5.1 - Duty to report ethical misconduct; responsibility to investigate ethical misconduct; ethical misconduct report coordination. - A. School district personnel, a school employee, a contractor or...
Section 22-10A-5.2 - Applicants for school employment, contracts or volunteer positions; requirements for work history and other information. - A. A public school shall require an applicant for employment...
Section 22-10A-6 - Educational requirements for licensure. - A. The department shall require a person seeking licensure or...
Section 22-10A-7 - Level one licensure. - A. A level one license is a provisional five-year license...
Section 22-10A-8 - Alternative level one license. - A. The department shall issue an alternative level one license...
Section 22-10A-8 - Alternative level one license. (Effective July 1, 2022.) - A. Except as provided in Subsection B of this section,...
Section 22-10A-8.1 - Saving clause. (Effective July 1, 2022.) - Persons holding alternative level one special education licenses on July...
Section 22-10A-9 - Teacher mentorship program for beginning teachers; purpose; department duties. - A. The purpose of the teacher mentorship program is to...
Section 22-10A-10 - Level two licensure. - A. A level two license is a nine-year license granted...
Section 22-10A-11 - Level three licensure; tracks for teachers. - A. A level three-A license is a nine-year license granted...
Section 22-10A-11.1 - Alternative level two or level three license. - A. At the end of an internship of at least...
Section 22-10A-11.2 - Deaf and hard-of-hearing teachers; alternative licensure assessment; saving provision. - A. A person who has a degree from an accredited...
Section 22-10A-11.3 - Level three-B provisional licensure for school principals. - A. A school district that has a shortage of qualified...
Section 22-10A-11.4 - Level three-B administrator's license; tracks for school administrator licensure. - A. A level three-B administrator's license is a five-year license...
Section 22-10A-12 - Limited reciprocity. - A. A teacher or school principal licensed in another state...
Section 22-10A-12.1 - Expedited licensure; military service members, spouses and dependents; waiver of fees; veterans. - A. The department shall, no later than thirty days after...
Section 22-10A-13 - Native American language and culture certificates. - The state board [department] may issue a Native American language...
Section 22-10A-14 - Certificates of waiver. - A. If a local superintendent or governing authority of a...
Section 22-10A-15 - Substitute teacher certificate. - The department shall provide by rule for the qualifications for...
Section 22-10A-16 - Parental notification. - A. Within sixty calendar days from the beginning of each...
Section 22-10A-17 - Instructional support provider licenses. - A. The department shall license instructional support providers, including educational...
Section 22-10A-17.1 - Educational assistants; licensing framework; qualifications; minimum salaries. - A. All persons who perform services as educational assistants in...
Section 22-10A-17.2 - Alternative level three-B licensure; track for instructional support providers. - A. An alternative level three-B license is a five-year license...
Section 22-10A-18 - School principals; duties. - In addition to other duties prescribed by law, a school...
Section 22-10A-19 - Teachers and school principals; accountability; evaluations; sick leave; professional development; peer intervention; mentoring. - A. The department shall adopt criteria and minimum highly objective...
Section 22-10A-19.1 - Professional development; systemic framework; requirements; department duties. - A. The department shall develop a systemic framework for professional...
Section 22-10A-19.2 - Educator accountability report. - A. The department shall: (1) design a uniform statewide educator...
Section 22-10A-19.3 - Anti-racism and racial sensitivity training and professional development. - Each year, all school personnel shall successfully complete an online...
Section 22-10A-20 - Staffing patterns; class load; teaching load. - A. The individual class load for elementary school teachers shall...
Section 22-10A-20.1 - Repealed. - History: Laws 2014, ch. 77, § 1; repealed by Laws...
Section 22-10A-21 - Licensed school employees; employment contracts; duration. - A. All employment contracts between superintendents and licensed school employees...
Section 22-10A-22 - Licensed school employees; notice of reemployment; termination. - On or before fifteen working days prior to the last...
Section 22-10A-23 - Licensed school employees; reemployment; acceptance; rejection; binding contract. - A. Each licensed school employee shall deliver to the superintendent...
Section 22-10A-24 - Termination decisions; local school board; governing authority of a state agency; procedures. - A. A local school board or governing authority of a...
Section 22-10A-25 - Appeals; independent arbitrator; qualifications; procedure; binding decision. - A. An employee who is still aggrieved by a decision...
Section 22-10A-26 - Excepted from provisions. - Sections 22-10A-22 through 22-10A-25 NMSA 1978 do not apply to...
Section 22-10A-27 - Discharge hearing; licensed school employees; procedures. - A. A superintendent may recommend to the governing authority the...
Section 22-10A-28 - Discharge appeals; licensed school employees; independent arbitrator; qualifications; procedure; binding decision. - A. A licensed school employee aggrieved by a decision of...
Section 22-10A-29 - Compensation payments to discharged personnel. - A. Payment of compensation to a licensed school employee employed...
Section 22-10A-30 - Supervision and correction procedures. - The state board [department] shall prescribe by regulations procedures to...
Section 22-10A-31 - Denial, suspension and revocation of licenses. - In accordance with the procedures provided in the Uniform Licensing...
Section 22-10A-32 - School district personnel, school employees, school volunteers, contractors and contractors' employees; required training program. - A. All school district personnel, school employees, school volunteers, contractors...
Section 22-10A-33 - Repealed. - History: Laws 1989, ch. 344, § 2; 1978 Comp., §...
Section 22-10A-34 - Repealed. - History: 1953 Comp., § 77-8-7, enacted by Laws 1967, ch....
Section 22-10A-35 - Local sabbatical leave program authorized. - A local school board may provide as part of its...
Section 22-10A-36 - Approved program required for sabbatical leave. - Sabbatical leave may be granted only upon the presentation and...
Section 22-10A-37 - Minimum conditions for sabbatical leave. - Any sabbatical leave program adopted by a local school district...
Section 22-10A-38 - Pay for sabbatical leave. - Sabbatical leave pay may be allowed in any amount up...
Section 22-10A-39 - Noncertified school personnel; salaries. - Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 50-4-22 NMSA 1978, a local...
Section 22-10A-40 - School security personnel; definitions; required training. - A. As used in this section: (1) "firearm" means a...
Section 22-10A-40.1 - Construction. - Nothing in this 2019 act shall be construed as: A....