Pub. L. 92-518, tit. I, sec. 103

Sec. 103. The District of Columbia Teachers’ Salary Act of 1955 is further amended as follows: (1) (A) The fourth sentence of section 2(a) of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 31–1511 (a)) is amended to read as follows: “No teacher, school officer, or other employee shall be appointed or promoted to any position covered by section 1 of this Act on probationary or permanent status unless he possesses a master’s degree, except that (1) a person possessing a bachelor’s degree may be appointed on probationary or permanent status as a teacher in the elementary or secondary schools or as a coordinator of practical nursing; (2) a person possessing a bachelor’s degree may be promoted to the position of census supervisor or coordinator of practical nursing; (3) a person not possessing a bachelor’s degree may be appointed on probationary’ or permanent status as a— “(A) shop teacher in the vocational education program, “(B) teacher of military science and tactics, “(C) teacher of driver training, “(D) attendance officer, or “(E) child labor inspector, if he submits acceptable evidence of equivalent training and experience in accordance with the rules of the Board; and (4) a person not possessing a bachelor’s degree may be appointed on a probationary or permanent status as a census supervisor, or promoted to that position, if he submits acceptable evidence of equivalent training and experience in accordance with the rules of the Board.” (B) The fifth sentence of such section is repealed. (2) Section 4 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 31–1521) is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 4. (a) Each teacher, school officer, or other employee in the service of the Board of Education on the effective date of tie District of Columbia Teachers’ Salary Act Amendments of 1972 who occupies a position covered by this Act and listed in this subsection shall be placed in a salary class in the salary schedule contained in section 1 of this Act as follows: “Title Class Superintendent 1A Vice superintendent 1B Deputy superintendent 2A Associate superintendent 2B Assistant superintendent 3 Executive assistant to superintendent 3 Director of curriculum 4 Chief examiner 5 Executive assistant (to deputy and associate superintendents) 5 Director, career development 5 Director, vocational high schools 5 Director, Spingarn instructional unit 5 Assistants to assistant superintendents 6 Director, elementary education (supervision and instruction) 6 Director, elementary education (administration) 6 Director, health, physical education, athletics, and safety 6 Assistants to superintendent, vice superintendent, and deputy superintendents 6 Director, staff development 6 Director, special education 6 Director, elementary education (language arts) 6 Principal 6 Supervising director 7 Assistant for Federal programs 7 Research associate 7 Planning associate 7 Director, school attendance 7 86 Stat. 1010 “Title Class Director, elementary education 7 Director, adult education 7 Director, summer schools and continuing education 7 Area coordinator 7 Assistant principal 8 Assistant director 8 Director, group measurement 8 Director, Project 400 8 Youth Act coordinator 8 Assistant chief examiner 8 Recruitment coordinator 8 Budget analyst 9 Assistant director 10 Research associate 10 Planning associate 10 Assistant recruitment coordinator 10 Elementary supervisor 10 Coordinator (aides) 10 Director of reading 10 Coordinator of Widening Horizons program 10 Teacher aide coordinator, title I 10 Cultural enrichment coordinator 10 Curriculum specialist 11 Clinical psychologist 12 Chief attendance officer 12 Educational specialist 13 Psychiatric social worker 13 Clinical social worker 13 Project coordinator 13 Coordinator of practical nursing 14 Census supervisor 14 Teacher, elementary and secondary schools 15 Attendance officer 15 Counselor, placement 15 Counselor, elementary and secondary schools 15 Librarian, elementary and secondary schools 15 School social worker 15 School psychologist 15 Speech therapist 15 Hearing therapist 15 Job coordinator 15 Pupil personnel worker 15 Child labor inspector 15. “(b) The Board of Education, in accordance with sections 2(a) and 5(b) of this Act, shall place in a salary class in the salary schedule contained in section 1 of this Act each teacher, school officer, or other employee in the service of the Board of Education on the effective date of the District of Columbia Teachers’ Salary Act Amendments of 1972 who occupies a position covered by this Act but not listed in subsection (a) of this section. “(c) The classifications prescribed by subsection (a) of this section of positions to salary classes in the salary schedule contained in section 1 of this Act do not affect the authority of the Board of Education under sections 2(a) and 5(b) of this Act to make adjustments in the classification of any position under the Board or to take any other action authorized by those sections.” (3) Section 5(c) of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 31–1522(c)) is amended by striking out “5333(a)” and inserting in lieu thereof “5332(a)”. (4) Section 7(a)(1) of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 31–1532(a)(1)) is amended by— (A) striking out in the fourth sentence “except the positions of chief librarian and assistant professor, associate professor, and professor,”; 86 Stat. 1011 (B) inserting immediately after the fourth sentence the following new sentence: “In the case of a person who is newly appointed to any position in salary class 3, 4, 5, or 6, who is determined by the Board of Education to possess unique or unusually high qualifications of special need to the school system, and “whose annual salary immediately prior to such appointment was higher than the rate of compensation prescribed for service step 1 of his salary class, such person may, in the discretion of the Board of Education, have his compensation fixed at the rate of compensation prescribed for service step 2 or 3 of his salary class.”; and (C) striking out the last sentence. (5) Section 10 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 31–1535) is amended by— (A) striking out in paragraph (1) of subsection (a) “date of the regular Board meeting” and inserting in lieu thereof “first day”; and (B) adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: “(c) Notwithstanding subsection (a) or any other provision of this or any other law, the Board of Education is authorized to correct on a retroactive basis any administrative error occurring in the application of subsection (a).” (6) Section 13 of such Act (D.C. Code, see. 31–1542) is amended by— (A) striking out in the second sentence of paragraph (2) of subsection (d) “in the same manner as regular pay”; and (B) striking out in the third sentence of such paragraph “81” and inserting in lieu thereof “83”. (7) Section 14 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 31–1543) is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 14. Except as otherwise provided in this section, each employee, whose annual salary is prescribed by the salary schedule contained in section 1 of this Act shall have his annual salary paid in twenty-four semimonthly installments. Semimonthly installment payments of the salaries of such employees shall be made on the first and sixteenth days of the month (or as near those days as is practicable); except that in lieu of receiving on such days the first semimonthly installment payment of salary payable in August and the three succeeding semi-monthly installment payments of salary, an employee in salary class 15 of such salary schedule may elect, under regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of the District of Columbia, to receive on the date of the second semimonthly installment payment of Ids salary in July an amount equal to the sum of (1) the amount of such payment, and (2) the amounts of the four succeeding semimonthly installment payments of salary payable to him.” (8) Section 15 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 31–1544) is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 15. On and after September 1, 1972, the Act of March 5, 1952 (D.C. Code, secs. 31–698–698a) (relating to vacation periods and annual leave) shall apply to employees of the Board of Education whose salaries are fixed in salary classes 1 through 14, inclusive, of the salary schedule contained in section 1 of this Act.” (9) Section 16 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 31–1545) is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 16. On and after September 1, 1972, the Act of October 13, 1949 (D.C. Code, sec. 31–691 et seq.) (relating to sick and emergency leave) shall apply to employees of the Board whose salaries are fixed in salary class 15 of the salary schedule contained in section 1 of this Act.”