1. (a) To carry out the educational program, the local school board shall require that each school provides:

   1. (1) The services of a licensed principal and a licensed school counselor(s);
   2. (2) Professional staff members licensed by the department in accordance with Ed 500 and Ed 600;
   3. (3) For the hiring and training of educators licensed under Ed 500 to facilitate learning in their credentialed content area or as assigned by the superintendent pursuant to (b) below;
   4. (4) The number of educators sufficient to satisfy the student-educator ratios in Ed 306.14;
   5. (5) In each elementary school, the services of a licensed reading specialist and library media specialist to facilitate the delivery of language arts and reading curriculum; and
   6. (6) In each middle and high school, the services of a library media specialist to support the management of the learning and instructional resources requirements of Ed 306.08.
2. (b) An educator with sufficient content knowledge, as determined by the superintendent, may be assigned to teach in a content area in which they are not licensed, so long as the total minor assignment(s) is less than 50 percent of the individual’s weekly hours of instruction.

3. (c) In carrying out the school counseling program, the local school board shall require that:

   1. (1) The counseling load in each elementary school shall not exceed the equivalent of one full-time licensed school counselor per 500 students enrolled;
   2. (2) The counseling load in each middle school and each high school shall not exceed the equivalent of one full-time licensed school counselor per 300 students enrolled;
   3. (3) High schools with more than 4 school counselors shall provide a high school level licensed director of school counseling to coordinate the implementation of the school counseling program plan and policy, unless (4) below applies; and
   4. (4) District level licensed directors of school counseling to coordinate K-12 implementation of the school counseling program plan and policy shall be provided in districts where the number of school counselors across all schools exceeds 10.
4. (d) The local school board shall require that each school with an enrollment of 500 or more students provides the services of an assistant principal or 2 or more persons with administrative licensure under Ed 506 who together act as a full-time equivalent to carry out administrative duties assigned by the superintendent in accordance with local school board policy.
5. (e) The local school board may provide for each school the services of additional staff to facilitate the use of the learning and instructional resources described in Ed 306.08 and the technological resources needed to facilitate the digital literacy program described in Ed 306.33.

Source. (See Revision Notes #1, #2, #3, and #4 at part heading for Ed 306) #14150, eff 12-13-24