(a) As a condition of continued employment every person employed as a teacher assistant shall participate in ongoing professional development. (b) Each school district or institution employing teacher assistants shall maintain records on a teacher assistant’s completion of: (1) Training for the work assignment; (2) Continuing education and relevant coursework; (3) For any person hired after January 1, 1999, a certificate of completion from a training program which complied with the teaching assistant training program standards developed by the department of elementary and secondary education pursuant to § 16-11.2-1; and/or (4) The requirements set forth in § 16-11.2-2(4). History of Section.P.L. 1996, ch. 167, § 1; P.L. 1997, ch. 96, § 1; P.L. 2003, ch. 126, § 1; P.L. 2003, ch. 136, § 1.
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