New Code Of Ethics For Teachers Approved
The State Board of Education has approved a new code of ethics for Arkansas’ 60,000 licensed teachers. The new code will take into effect 1 September and will ban teachers to use tobacco, alcohol and illegal drugs. The code also requires teachers to maintain professional relationships with students and to keep confidential standardized testing materials.
Channel 7 News reports that in addition, the code levies a fee on some teaching licenses for the first time in the state’s history, to help pay for enforcement of the new rules.
The Arkansas Education Association had asked the board to consider delaying most of the rules’ implementation until next year, to give educators time to adjust to the code. The AEA supports the new code, but also said the rules would be more effective if the standards board were given power to subpoena people.
Dan Marzoni, the president of the Arkansas Education Association, is quoted claiming that their association supports the new code.
“We don’t want people tried in the paper … We know in the first year, there’s going to be a lot of ‘gotchas. There’s going to be parents out there and people there filing stuff that just has no relationship to reality, and we don’t want that person’s reputation ruined just because someone got mad,” he said.
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