19 TAC §230.601
The State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) adopts
an amendment to Subchapter U, §230.601, concerning Assignment of Public
School Personnel without changes to the proposed text as published in the
January 28, 2000, issue of the
Texas Register
(25 TexReg 495) and will not be republished.
The adopted amendment is necessary to accomplish the following:
Remove the Educational Secretary Certificate from the inventory of available
certificates.
Delete the requirements for assignment to the position of educational secretary.
Remove the educational secretary from the list of positions defining an
educator.
The effect of the adopted amendment will be to eliminate certification
for educational secretaries.
The Texas Education Code authorizes the Board to certify public school
educators. Since educational secretaries are not educators, the Board has
no authority to certify educational secretaries.
SBEC will no longer issue certificates for educational secretaries. Individuals
already certified as educational secretaries will keep their certificates,
but the certificates will no longer be necessary for employment as an educational
secretary.
In formulating this amendment, the Board considered the recommendations
of its Advisory Committee on Educator Certificates, which recommended elimination
of educational secretary certificates. Before the rule was proposed, the Board
considered to the public testimony of representatives of the Texas Educational
Secretaries Association (TESA), which favored continued certification of educational
secretaries. But in reviewing the relevant provisions of the Education Code,
the Board decided SBEC lacked proper authority to regulate educational secretaries.
No comments were received regarding adoption of the amendment.
The amendment is adopted under Texas Education Code (TEC), §21.041(b)(2),
which requires the State Board for Educator Certification to propose rules
that specify the classes of certificates offered.
This agency hereby certifies that the adoption has been reviewed
by legal counsel and found to be a valid exercise of the agency's legal authority.
Filed with the Office of
the Secretary of State on April 14, 2000.
TRD-200002651
Pamela B. Tackett
Executive Director
State Board for Educator Certification
Effective date: May 4, 2000
Proposal publication date: January 28, 2000
For further information, please call: (512) 469-3011