HCEA Negotiated Agreement - Harford County Public Schools

ARTICLE XVII
Reimbursement for Tuition and Conferences
17.1 The Board shall reimburse tuition to employees holding professional certificates
based on the following conditions:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
(F)
(G)
(H)
(I)
Funds appropriated for the line item(s) for tuition reimbursement are
available and have not been expended.
Coursework eligible for tuition reimbursement must be applicable toward
obtaining or renewing a professional certificate. Coursework taken beyond
the Master’s Degree in a pre-approved doctoral program will be eligible for
tuition reimbursement up to a maximum of forty-five (45) semester hours of
credit.
Graduate coursework will be reimbursed for the actual cost of tuition up to
a maximum of $300 per semester hour of credit.
Undergraduate coursework, when applicable toward obtaining or renewing
a professional certificate, will be reimbursed for the actual cost of tuition up
to a maximum of $75 per semester hour of credit.
No professionally certificated employee will be reimbursed for more than
twelve (12) semester hours of credit per fiscal year.
A grade of “C” or better must be achieved.
In order to be reimbursed, the employee must return for the subsequent full
semester of professional experience. If the employee does not return for the
subsequent semester, deductions will be withheld from accrued salary if
available. Otherwise, the employee will be responsible for returning any
reimbursed funds.
In order to receive reimbursement for summer coursework, the employee
must have been professionally employed by Harford County Public Schools
the previous spring.
Professionally certificated employees receiving scholarships, grants, etc.,
will be eligible for reimbursement if the tuition cost exceeds the
scholarship. In such cases, the Board will reimburse the difference between
the scholarship and the amount that would have otherwise been reimbursed.
17.2 The Board shall reimburse tuition to employees holding a Provisional/Conditional
Certificate based on the following conditions:
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