168.520. Career advancement program for personnel of state schools for the blind, deaf and severely disabled--salary supplement for participants.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

168.520. Career advancement program for personnel of state schools for the blind, deaf and severely disabled--salary supplement for participants.

Career advancement program for personnel of state schools for theblind, deaf and severely disabled--salary supplement forparticipants.

168.520. 1. For the purpose of providing career pay, which shall bea salary supplement for teachers, librarians, guidance counselors andcertificated teachers who hold positions as school psychological examiners,parents-as-teachers educators, school psychologists, special educationdiagnosticians or speech pathologists in Missouri schools for the severelydisabled, the Missouri School for the Blind and the Missouri School for theDeaf, there is hereby established a career advancement program which shallbecome effective no later than September 1, 1986. Participation in thecareer advancement program by teachers shall be voluntary.

2. The department of elementary and secondary education with therecommendation of teachers from the state schools, shall develop a careerplan. This state career plan shall include, but need not be limited to,the provisions of state model career plans as contained in subsection 2 ofsection 168.500.

3. After a teacher who is duly employed by a state school qualifiesand is selected for participation in the state career plan establishedunder this section, such a teacher shall not be denied the career payauthorized by such plan except as provided in subdivisions (1), (2), and(3) of section 168.510.

4. Each teacher selected to participate in the career planestablished under this section who meets the requirements of such planshall receive a salary supplement as provided in subdivisions (1), (2), and(3) of subsection 1 of section 168.515.

5. The department of elementary and secondary education shallannually include within its budget request to the general assemblysufficient funds for the purpose of providing career pay as establishedunder this section to those eligible teachers employed in Missouri schoolsfor the severely disabled, the Missouri School for the Deaf, and theMissouri School for the Blind.