La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § CXXXI-1527

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section CXXXI-1527 - Elementary School Principal

A. Eligibility requirements:

1. valid Type A or Level 3 Louisiana teaching certificate for the elementary school;

2. graduate degree from an institution of higher education accredited in accordance with 34 CFR 602 ;

3. five or more years of classroom teaching at elementary school level;

4. score of 620 on the Educational Administration and Supervision Area Exam of the NTE;

5. minimum of 30 semester hours of graduate credit, as follows:

a. educational administration and instructional supervision, nine semester hours:

i. foundations of or introduction to educational administration, or theory of educational administration;

ii. elementary school principal; and

iii. principles of instructional supervision in the elementary school;

b. professional education, 21 semester hours:

i. eighteen semester hours of three each:

(a). educational research;

(b). history or philosophy of education;

(c). elementary school curriculum;

(d). school law;

(e). school finance; and

(f). school personnel administration; and

ii. three semester hours of educational administration electives to be selected from the following:

(a). school-community relations;

(b). school facilities; or

(c). program development and evaluation in either professional education or in areas outside of professional education.

B. Individuals who meet requirements of Item A above are eligible for a provisional elementary school principal endorsement. Upon employment as a principal or assistant principal, an individual with provisional principal endorsement must enroll in the two year Principal Internship Program.

C. A regular elementary school principal endorsement will be added to the standard Type A certificate upon satisfactory completion of the two year Principal Internship Program.

D. Individuals holding provisional or regular principal endorsements at the elementary school level may serve as principal of an elementary, middle, secondary, or combination grade-level school.

E. Elementary school assistant principals are required to meet the same standards as elementary school principals.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § CXXXI-1527

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 32:1825 (October 2006), amended LR 46:1383 (October 2020), LR 48470 (3/1/2022), Repromulgated LR 481079 (4/1/2022), Amended LR 50673 (5/1/2024).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:6(A)(10), (11), and (15), R.S. 17:7(6), R.S. 17:10, R.S. 17:22(6), R.S. 17:391.1- 391.10, and R.S. 17:411.