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79-1007.19. Teacher education adjustment;calculation.For school fiscal years 2008-09 and 2009-10, thedepartment shall calculate a teacher education adjustment for each districtas follows:(1) Teacher education points shall be calculated for each district bythe department based upon data from the fall personnel report required pursuantto section 79-804 for the school fiscal year immediately preceding the schoolfiscal year in which aid is to be paid. Each full-time equivalent teachershall (a) be under contract with a school district as required pursuant tosection 79-818 and (b) only be counted one time in the awarding of any pointspursuant to this section. Each district shall receive one point for each full-timeequivalent teacher who has earned and been awarded a master's degree or aneducation specialist's degree and two points for each full-time equivalentteacher who has earned and been awarded a doctoral degree;(2) A teacher education index shall be calculated for each districtby dividing the ratio of teacher education points for the district dividedby the number of full-time equivalent teachers in the district by the ratioof teacher education points for all districts divided by the number of full-timeequivalent teachers in all districts; and(3) The teacher education adjustment for each district shall equal tenpercent of the district's basic fundingmultiplied by the difference of the product of the district's teacher educationindex minus one, except that if the result is less than zero, the teachereducation adjustment shall equal zero. SourceLaws 2008, LB988, § 21; Laws 2009, First Spec. Sess., LB5, § 7.Effective Date: November 21, 2009