Pub. L. 84-243, tit. II, sec. 2

Sec. 2. (a) The Board of Education on written recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools is authorized to establish the eligibility requirements and prescribe methods of appointment and promotion for teachers, school officers, and other employees. The Board of Education is authorized and directed, on written recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, to classify and assign all teachers, school officers, and other employees to the salary classes and groups in section 1 of this Act. Teachers, school officers, and other employees on probationary or permanent status shall not be required to take any examinations, either mental or physical, to be continued in the positions in which they are employed on June 30, 1955, or to which they may be transferred and assigned under the provisions of section 4 and section 5 of this Act. No teacher, school officer, or other employee shall be appointed or promoted to any position in section 1 of this Act on probationary or permanent status unless he possesses a master’s degree, except that a person possessing a bachelor’s degree may be appointed on probationary or permanent status as Director of Food Services. Assistant Director of Food Services, Supervising Director of the Department of Military Science and Tactics, teacher of military science and tactics, teacher of driver training, shop teacher in the vocational high schools, teacher in the junior high schools, counselor in the vocational high schools, counselor in the junior high schools, teacher in the elementary schools, research assistant, attendance officer, child labor inspector, or census supervisor. No teacher, school officer, or other employee shall receive compensation at a rate less than his annual compensation as of June 30, 1955. 69 Stat. 524 (b) Notwithstanding any provision of this Act the Board is authorized on a written recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, to appoint or promote vocational high school shop teachers to salary class 18, group B, without, a master’s degree if they submit evidence of equivalent training and experience in accordance with the rules of the Board. A vocational high school shop teacher may not be appointed, assigned, or promoted to salary class 18, group C, who does not possess a master’s degree granted in course plus thirty credit hours. (c) When used in this Act— (1) The term “master’s degree” and “doctor’s degree” mean, respectively, a master’s degree and a doctor’s degree granted in course by an accredited higher educational institution. (2) The term “plus thirty credit hours” means the equivalent of not less than thirty graduate credit hours in academic, vocational, or professional courses beyond a master’s degree, representing a definite educational program satisfactory to the Board. Graduate credit hours beyond thirty which were earned prior to obtaining a master’s degree may be applied in computing such thirty credit hours. (3) The terms “Board” and “Board of Education” mean the Board of Education of the District of Columbia. (4) The term “Salary Act of 1947” means the District of Columbia Teachers’ Salary Act of 1947, as amended.