PURPOSE: The State Board of Education is authorized to grant certificates of license to teach in any of the public schools of the state and to establish requirements and qualifications for those certificates under the provisions of section 168.021.1, RSMo and cause the certificates to be revoked in a manner provided in section 168.071, RSMo. This rule establishes a procedure for processing applications for a Missouri teaching certificate from applicants having had teaching certificates revoked by a certificating authority other than the State Board of Education or the certifying authority in another state or political subdivision. (1) All applicants for Missouri certification, in the application process, must acknowledge whether or not they have ever had a teaching certificate revoked by a Missouri certificating authority other than the State Board of Education or by the certificating authority in another state or political subdivision.

1. (2) Applicants must sign a consent authorizing the state board as it deems necessary or appropriate to make contact with, interview, consult, obtain documentation and verification from other persons and sources within or without Missouri with respect to the applicant and the applicant’s request for certification.
2. (3) Applicants for Missouri certification who have had or currently have a teaching certificate revoked will not be eligible to be considered for Missouri certification until a time as they have the revocation cleared by the certificating authority and hold a valid certificate from that authority.

AUTHORITY: sections 161.092, 168.011, 168.031, RSMo 1986, 168.021, RSMo Supp. 1990 and 168.071, RSMo Supp. 1993.* Original rule filed April 24, 1985, effective Sept. 3, 1985.

*Original authority: 161.092, RSMo 1963, amended 1973; 168.011, RSMo 1963, amended 1984; 168.021, RSMo 1963, amended 1973, 1984, 1988, 1990; 168.031, RSMo 1963; and 168.071, RSMo 1963, amended 1973, 1978, 1984, 1988, 1993.