School counselors, school social workers, specialist educational technology teachers, industrial coordinators, and vocational programs coordinators who are working in the System on the effective date of this act, may claim their corresponding teaching level and classification in the following year, according to the standards provisionally established in this section.To such effects the following classifications shall be acknowledged:Level I. — Permanent officials, with at least two (2) years of experience in the System.Level II. — Permanent officials, with more than two years and less than thirteen (13) years of experience in the System, who hold a Master’s degree granted by a higher education institution duly accredited or recognized in Puerto Rico; or with more than two (2) years and less than eight (8) years of experience in the System, who hold a Doctor’s degree granted by a higher education institution duly accredited or recognized in Puerto Rico.Level III. — Permanent officials with at least thirteen (13) years of experience in the System, and who hold a Master’s degree granted by a higher education institution duly accredited or recognized in Puerto Rico; or with at least with at least thirteen (13) years of experience in the System, and who hold a Master’s degree granted by a higher education institution duly accredited or recognized in Puerto Rico; or with at least eight (8) years of experience in the System who hold a Doctor’s degree granted by a higher education institution duly accredited or recognized in Puerto Rico.Level IV. — Permanent officials with at least fifteen (15) years of experience in the System, and [who] hold a Doctor’s degree granted by a higher education institution, duly accredited or recognized in Puerto Rico. History —July 18, 1999, No. 158, § 9.01, renumbered as § 8.01 and amended on Aug. 28, 2002, No. 208, § 9.
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