To amend salary standards for educational and vocational instructors. The bill modifies salary schedules for professional support staff beginning in 2007 to 2008. The bill also modifies salary schedules for vocational support staff in 2007 to 2008.   Official Text and Analysis.

To allow, beginning in the 2007-08 school year, occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech-language pathologists, audiologists, nurses, social workers, counselors, and psychologists to include experience in schools and other related nonschool positions as years of service under the state salary allocation schedule. One year of service in a nonschool position will be counted as one year of service. A maximum of five years of nonschool service may be included in the determination of years of service. Beginning in the 2007-08 school year, vocational certified instructors may include related nonschool experience as years of service if they have a valid vocational certificate acquired from noneducational work experience and a college degree earned prior to the vocational certificate. Such instructors are defined as "nondegreed," and may qualify for years of service for supervisory noneducational work experiences.