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79-808. Teachers and administrators;certificates and permits; requirements; board; duties; advisory committees.(1) The board shall establish, adopt, and promulgate appropriaterules, regulations, and procedures governing the issuance, renewal, conversion,suspension, and revocation of certificates and permits to teach, provide specialservices, and administer based upon (a) earned college credit in humanities,social and natural sciences, mathematics, or career and technical education,(b) earned college credit, or its equivalent in professional education, forparticular teaching, special services, or administrative assignments, (c)criminal history record information if the applicant has not been a continuousNebraska resident for five years immediately preceding application for thefirst issuance of a certificate, (d) human relations training, (e) successfulteaching, administration, or provision of special services, and (f) moral,mental, and physical fitness for teaching, all in accordance with sound educationalpractices. Such rules, regulations,and procedures shall also provide for endorsement requirements to indicateareas of specialization on such certificates and permits.(2) The board may issue a temporary certificate, valid fora period not to exceed two years, to any applicant for certification who hasnot completed the human relations training requirement.(3) Members of any advisory committee established by the boardto assist the board in teacher education and certification matters shall bereimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses as provided in sections 81-1174 to 81-1177. Each school district which has an employee who servesas a member of such committee and which is required to hire a person to replacesuch member during the member's attendance at meetings or activities of thecommittee or any subcommittee thereof shall be reimbursed from the CertificationFund for the expense it incurs from hiring a replacement. School districtsmay excuse employees who serve on such advisory committees from certain dutieswhich conflict with any advisory committee duties. SourceLaws 1963, c. 491, § 3, p. 1569; Laws 1981, LB 427, § 1; Laws 1984, LB 994, § 9; Laws 1985, LB 633, § 7; Laws 1986, LB 997, § 14; Laws 1987, LB 529, § 6; Laws 1989, LB 250, § 2; Laws 1990, LB 1090, § 20; Laws 1991, LB 511, § 57; Laws 1992, LB 245, § 62; Laws 1995, LB 123, § 2; R.S.Supp.,1995, § 79-1247.05; Laws 1996, LB 900, § 438; Laws 2001, LB 314, § 1; Laws 2003, LB 685, § 8; Laws 2009, LB547, § 2.AnnotationsThis statute grants broad powers to the State Board of Education to adopt rules and regulations governing the issuance of teaching certificates to be based upon "earned college credit" as well as other factors deemed to be important to a determination of fitness to teach. State ex rel. Douglas v. Faith Baptist Church of Louisville, 207 Neb. 802, 301 N.W.2d 571 (1981).