(a) The Board of Education of the District of Columbia is authorized to participate in the teacher foreign exchange program in cooperation with the United States Office of Education.
(b) Any employee of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia who is subject to the provisions of the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1955 shall, with the approval of the Board of Education, be eligible to participate in such program, and shall, if accepted for such foreign assignment, serve for a period not to exceed one calendar year, and shall, at the conclusion of such service, be returned to the position which he held before the exchange was effected; provided, that in any one calendar year not more than 10 such employees shall participate in such program.
(Sept. 28, 1950, 64 Stat. 1076, ch. 1091, § 1.)
HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES
Prior Codifications
1981 Ed., § 31-1033.
1973 Ed., § 31-699.
References in Text
"The District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1955," referred to in subsection (b) of this section, refers to the Act of August 5, 1955, 69 Stat. 521, ch. 569.
The Board of Education of the District of Columbia is authorized to pay the full salary of the educational employee of said Board during the time such employee is performing teaching duties in a foreign country under such exchange program, in the same manner and to the same extent as if such educational employee were actually performing his teaching duties in his regularly assigned position in the public schools of the District of Columbia, and any such educational employee participating in such program shall, for purposes of promotion, computation of annual increment, computation of service for pension credit, including salary contributions to the pension fund, and leave of absence credits, be considered as performing teaching duties in the schools of the District of Columbia.
(Sept. 28, 1950, 64 Stat. 1077, ch. 1091, § 2.)
HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES
Prior Codifications
1981 Ed., § 31-1034.
1973 Ed., § 31-699a.
(a) Each professionally qualified person from a foreign country exchanged under the provisions of this subchapter with an educational employee of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia shall during the period of such exchange serve as a substitute for the exchanged teacher and shall be assigned in the public schools of the District of Columbia as the Board of Education shall determine. Such exchange teacher shall serve without compensation for such service from the District of Columbia or any agency thereof; provided further, that the term of such assignment or exchange shall not exceed one calendar year.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any foreign teacher, instructor, or professor assigned to duties in the public schools of the District of Columbia under the provisions of this subchapter shall not be required to take an oath of office or any oath of allegiance or loyalty to the United States, but shall satisfy the Board of Education of the District of Columbia as to his personal, moral, and professional fitness to teach in the public schools of Washington, District of Columbia.
(Sept. 28, 1950, 64 Stat. 1077, ch. 1091, § 3.)
HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES
Prior Codifications
1981 Ed., § 31-1035.
1973 Ed., § 31-699b.
