P.R. Laws tit. 18, § 313d
Level III shall be granted in each classification to the member of the teaching career who meets the following requirements:
(a) Master’s Degree in the category in which he/she performs.
(b) Seven (7) years of teaching experience in the Public Education System.
(c) Two hundred (200) contact hours in continuing education activities since the level he/she holds at the moment of requesting promotion was recognized.
(d) Satisfactory evaluations of his/her teaching performance, or the following requirements:
(1) Forty-five (45) academic credit hours at graduate level in study areas related to the category he/she performs, approved in a higher education institution duly-accredited or recognized in Puerto Rico.
(2) One hundred (100) contact hours of continuing education activities from the time his/her present level was recognized when requesting promotion.
(3) Seven (7) years of teaching experience in the Public Education System.
(4) Satisfactory evaluations of his/her teaching performance.
The recognition of the level shall be effective on the date that the member of the teaching career submits evidence of having duly completed his/her Professional Improvement Plan, and it has been approved by the corresponding authority.
The incentive corresponding to Level II shall be recognized to those members of the teaching career who are promoted from Level I to Level III and meet all the requirements of this section.
History —July 18, 1999, No. 158, § 3.05, renumbered as § 2.05 and amended on Aug. 28, 2002, No. 208, § 3.