Sec.10-145d-589. Initial educator certificate requirements

To receive an initial educator certificate as a school business administrator, an applicant shall present evidence of having met the following requirements:

Has met one of the following conditions:

(a) Holds a bachelor's or master's degree from an approved institution with major concentration either in business administration or public administration, having completed course work in the following prescribed areas: law, accounting, finance, management, personnel and informational systems; or

(b) Holds a bachelor's degree from an approved institution, having completed a minimum of 12 semester hours of credit in the prescribed following areas: school law, school finance, school plant planning and operation, school business administration, budgeting and resource management, personnel, collective bargaining, systems analysis and operations; or

(c) Holds a master's degree or sixth-year certificate in educational administration or educational management, having completed a minimum of 12 semester hours of credit in the prescribed following areas: school business administration, school finance, budgeting and resource management, school law, personnel administration, school plant planning and operation, collective bargaining, system analysis and operations research; or

(d) In addition to possessing a minimum of a bachelor's degree from an approved institution and in lieu of the prescribed course work in subsection (a) of this section, has successfully completed a minimum of three years of work in public or private business administration, such work to have involved not less than six of the responsibilities listed in Section 10-145d-588 of these regulations, or educational administration or public administration.

(Effective July 1, 1993)