Arizona Revised Statutes Title 15. Education § 15-941. Teacher experience index; computation; definition

A. The teacher experience index for each school district shall be computed as follows:

B. Librarians, guidance counselors, curriculum coordinators and other personnel who do not conduct regularly scheduled classes shall not be included as certified teachers and shall be coded separately from certified teachers in the uniform system of financial records.

C. Each school district shall on or before October 15 submit to the superintendent of public instruction in electronic format the data prescribed in subsection A, paragraphs 1 and 2 of this section for the current year. The superintendent of public instruction shall use the data to compute the teacher experience index of each school district for the budget year.

D. The superintendent of public instruction on or before February 1 shall notify each school district of its preliminary teacher experience index for the budget year. Between February 1 and March 1, a school district may submit corrections to data that it submitted pursuant to subsection C of this section and the superintendent of public instruction on or before March 15 shall recompute the teacher experience index for all school districts for the budget year using the corrected data. The teacher experience index for the budget year shall not be recalculated after March 15 unless the superintendent of public instruction determines that the school district has submitted data resulting in an overstatement of the teacher experience index for the budget year.

E. For the purposes of this section, “number of years of experience” means the number of years of classroom instruction conducted by a certified teacher in the school district in which the certified teacher is currently employed, including the number of years of experience of the certified teacher granted by the school district for the certified teacher on the district's salary schedule for experience outside of the school district.