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BESE and LDOE Updates

Beginning October 1, 2025, Educational Testing Services (ETS) launched Free After Three: https://praxis.ets.org/free-after-three.html.

 

Bulletin 746: Chapter 15: Administrative and Supervisory Credentials (individuals holding an ancillary certificate with five years of successful teaching will be admitted into the Graduate and Certification Educational Leadership Program) 

The EDL 1 certificate is needed for school and district educational leadership positions such as assistant principal, principal, parish or city supervisor of instruction, supervisor
of child welfare and attendance, special education supervisor, or comparable school/district leader positions. The EDL certificate is issued upon the request of the LEA upon employment to serve as an educational leader. An EDL 1 certificate may be obtained through either a graduate degree pathway or through one of three alternate pathways.

 

Graduate Degree Pathway. To receive an entry-level EDL 1, the candidate must:
a. hold or be eligible to hold a Louisiana type B or level 2 teaching certificate or have a comparable level out-of-state teaching certificate and three years of teaching experience, including experience as a librarian or counselor, with all out-of-state experience verified as successful by the out-of-state employing authority or SEA, or hold an ancillary teaching certificate as defined in Chapter 5 Subchapter C of this Part with at least five years of succesful teaching experience verified in accordance with §103 of this Part. 
b. complete a competency-based graduate degree preparation program in the area of educational leadership from an institution of higher education accredited in accordance with 34 CFR 602, which may be inclusive of BESE-approved mentor teacher or content leader training;

 

Per Bulletin 746: 

§1904. Criminal History Review for Certification
A. Effective beginning January 1, 2025, an applicant for an initial educator credential shall undergo a criminal history record check in accordance with this Section. For an applicant or recipient of an educator credential, the LDOE shall:

  1. Request information from the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information, referred to in this Section as the “state bureau,” and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, referred to in this Section as the “federal bureau,” concerning whether the person has been arrested for, convicted of, or pled nolo contendere to any criminal offense.
  2. Require and provide the procedure for the submission of a person’s fingerprints to the state bureau, and from the state bureau to the federal bureau, in a form acceptable to the state bureau.
  3. Review rap backs in accordance with R.S. 15:587.1 and this Section for any person with an educator credential when the person applies to have a credential renewed, advanced, or otherwise modified.

NOTE: The LDOE may require state and federal criminal history checks as otherwise requested.

 

§303. Certification Exams and Scores

E. Elementary Grades 1-5 complete the following Praxis Assessments: 

  1. Content Requirements:
    • Elementary Multiple Subjects (5001), effective 9/1/15, or Louisiana Elementary Multiple Subjects (7001),
      effective 6/1/24, consisting of four separately timed subtests. Subtests from either series (5001 or 7001) may be combined
      to meet all four subtest requirements:
      • Reading Language Arts (5002), score 157, or Reading Language Arts (7002), for scores as outlined in
        Paragraph 2 of this Subsection; and
      • Mathematics (5003), score 157, or Mathematics (7003), effective 6/1/24, score 157; and
      • Social Studies (5004), score 155, or Social Studies (7004), effective 6/1/24, score 155; and
      • Science (5005), score 159, or Science (7005), effective 6/1/24, score 159.
  2. Teaching of Reading: Elementary (5205), effective 1/1/24, score 159, or Reading Language Arts (7002) is required, in accordance with §303.O of this part. Candidates already enrolled in the year-long residency and holding either the PL or R credential prior to 1/1/25 are not subject to this provision.
  3. Principles of Learning and Teaching: K-6 in accordance with §303.B.

 

F. Middle School Grades 4-8 Certification Areas

  • Content Requirements: 
    • Mathematics 4-8: Middle School Mathematics (5164), effective 9/1/21, score 157.
    • Science 4-8: Middle School Science (5442), effective 4/1/21, score 152.

 

§507. Professional Level Certificates

Undergraduate program completers [must complete] a one-year in-state residency must hold a resident teacher certificate in
accordance with §535 of this chapter and receive mentoring by a classroom-based mentor teacher in accordance with §553 of this Chapter. 

 

NOTE:  §553. Mentor Teacher (MT) Ancillary Certificate