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New Requirements for Para-Professionals
Hired after January 8, 2002
LEA must ensure all para-professionals
hired after this date and working in a Title I, Part A Program* must have:
- Completed at least two years of
study at an LEA;
- Obtained an AA degree (or higher);
or
- Met rigorous standard of quality
and can demonstrate, through a formal state or local academic assessment:
- Knowledge of, and the ability to
assist in instructing, reading, writing, and mathematics; or
- Knowledge of, and the ability to
assist instructing, reading readiness, writing readiness, and mathematics
readiness, as appropriate.
*This requirement applies to
all para-professionals on a campus designated as a Title I school-wide campus.
Hired before January 8, 2002
All para-professionals hired
by the LEA before January 8, 2002, and working in a Title I, Part A Program*
must have a secondary school diploma, or its recognized equivalent (GED)
and, no later than four years after the date of enactment (January 8, 2002),
meet the qualifications listed above.
Exception
These para-professional qualifications
do not apply to a para-professional who primary responsibility is to serve
as a translator or whose duties consist solely of conducting parental involvement
activities under Title I, Part A. |
