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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="6-703" title_number="6" title_name="Teachers and Other Personnel" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Professional Standards and Teacher Education Board">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Board consists of the following members:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Eight public school classroom teachers, as follows:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Six chosen from a list of nominees provided by the statewide teachers’ organization representing a majority of teachers in the State for collective bargaining purposes; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Two chosen from a list of nominees provided by a statewide teachers’ organization representing teachers in at least one jurisdiction within the State for collective bargaining purposes other than the majority organization provided for in item 1 of this item;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Six teacher education faculty members from colleges of the State, chosen from a list of nominees provided by:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>The Maryland Association of Teacher Educators; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>The Maryland Association of Colleges of Teacher Education;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Four administrative or supervisory staff members of public schools, as follows:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Two chosen from a list of nominees provided by the Public School Superintendents’ Association of Maryland;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>One chosen from a list of nominees provided by the Maryland Association of Secondary School Principals; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>One chosen from a list of nominees provided by the Maryland Association of Elementary School Administrators;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>One administrative or supervisory staff of the approved nonpublic schools of the State, chosen from a list of nominees provided by the Association of Independent Schools;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>One member of a local board of education, chosen from a list of nominees provided by the Maryland Association of Boards of Education;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Two representatives of the Maryland Association of Nonpublic Special Education Facilities, chosen as follows:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>One licensed special education teacher currently providing classroom instruction, chosen from a list of nominees provided by the Maryland Association of Nonpublic Special Education Facilities; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>One administrator or supervisory staff member, chosen from a list of nominees provided by the Maryland Association of Nonpublic Special Education Facilities;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>Two representatives of the general public, as follows:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>One chosen from a list of nominees provided by the Speaker of the House of Delegates of Maryland; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>One chosen from a list of nominees provided by the President of the Senate of Maryland; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>The State Superintendent or a designee of the State Superintendent.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Board shall include all the members of the Professional Standards and Teacher Education Advisory Board serving on July 1, 1991.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate of Maryland, shall appoint the members of the Board described in subsection (a)(1)(i) through (vii) of this section.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In making the appointments required under this subsection, the Governor shall ensure that the Board is representative of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The geographic regions of the State; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Minority populations of the State as defined in § 9–301 of the State Government Article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The term of an appointed member is 3 years.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The terms of the appointed members are staggered as required by the terms provided for members of the Board on October 1, 1991.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>At the end of a term, a member continues to serve until a successor is appointed.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A member who is appointed after a term has begun serves only for the remainder of the term and until a successor is appointed and qualifies.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Governor may remove a member for incompetence or misconduct.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>From among its members, the Board annually shall elect a chairman.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>A majority of the members of the Board then serving on the Board is a quorum.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>The staff for the Board shall be provided by the State Board.</text>
  </level>
</section>
