An Act to create a one-year career and technical education instructor educator permit.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

Section 1. That chapter 13-42 be amended with a NEW SECTION:

The secretary may issue a one-year career and technical education (CTE) instructor educator permit to an applicant who submits documentation showing that the applicant holds a minimum of a high school diploma or its equivalent and has an associate of applied science degree or higher in a related CTE field, or has a high school diploma or its equivalent and has completed at least two thousand hours of work experience in a related CTE field in the three years immediately preceding the application, or has a national or state certification in a related CTE field. An individual who holds an active one-year CTE instructor educator permit is considered certified pursuant to this chapter.

The applicant must submit documentation from a public or department-accredited school showing that the school is unable to hire a certified educator to fill the vacancy and listing the position to be held by the applicant and the name of the certified teacher who will act as a mentor to the applicant. The applicant must submit the required documentation on forms approved by the secretary.

The South Dakota Board of Education Standards shall promulgate rules, pursuant to chapter 1-26, establishing the process by which an applicant may apply for the one-year CTE instructor educator permit, the CTE career pathway endorsements that the applicant for the one-year CTE instructor educator permit is eligible to add to the permit, and what continuing education an individual must complete to renew the one-year CTE instructor educator permit. The educator permit may not be renewed for more than one year at a time.