Qualifications for Additional Salary Lanes. [a] Deadlines
(i) All completed lane change requests must be received in the Human Resources Department on or before the 1st of the month to allow the appropriate salary adjustments for any earnings subsequent to that date. If proper documentation is submitted at the time of application, salary adjustments will normally be reflected in the following month's check. In the event that proper documentation cannot be provided at the time of application, but all course work is completed before the date of application, a thirty (30) calendar day period will be allowed to provide proper documentation, with the salary adjustment retroactive to the time it would have taken effect had proper documentation been provided at the time of application. In order to qualify for the retroactive salary adjustment, the employee must submit with the application a letter clearly identifying all documentation that is omitted; and the application, except for the missing documentation, must be complete. Any salary adjustments for lane change requests submitted after the first of the month of the last full month worked will not be included in any payments on the current contract year but instead will be reflected on payments beginning the next contract year.
(ii) Requests (including proper documentation) received by the 1st of the month deadline, but taking longer to approve, will be processed retroactive to the 1st of the month following the month of the original submission. [b] Provisions
(i) Courses which carry college credit must be granted from accredited institutions of higher education, and the accreditation must be recognized and accepted by the Utah State Office of Education.
(ii) In order to be eligible for lane change credit, courses must be taken after award of initial educator license. Courses taken as part of an alternative route to licensure program are ineligible for consideration.
(iii) Educators who receive a master’s degree and are placed on the BS+50 semester or 75 quarter hours/Masters lane may thereafter submit any eligible course credits towards subsequent lane changes, as long as the courses were not applied to or required for completion of the master’s degree and have not previously been counted towards a lane change. Educators who attain the BS+40 semester or 60 quarter hours lane prior to being placed on the Masters lane may also thereafter receive lane change credit for courses applied to or required as part of their Master’s program provided that the indi...
