Delaware Administrative Code
Title 14 - Education
700 - Finance and Personnel
746 - Criminal Background Check for Student Teaching
Section 746-3.0 - Criminal Background Check Requirements and Procedures for Student Teaching Position Candidates
Current through Register Vol. 28, No. 3, September 1, 2024
3.1 Effective April 7, 2016, any candidate for a Student Teaching Placement in a Public School shall be required to have a criminal background check as prescribed through this regulation.
3.2 The State Bureau of Identification (SBI) shall provide the criminal background information and the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families (DSCYF) shall provide the Child Protection Registry check information to the individual and to the Higher Education Institution identified by the individual, through the Administrator of Educator Preparation Program. The Higher Education Institution shall determine whether the individual is prohibited from being placed per the provisions of 31 Del.C. § 309 (d) and shall send a copy of the complete criminal background check and Child Protection Registry check information to the head of the Public School considering the person as a candidate for a Student Teaching Placement. If the individual is not prohibited from placement per the provisions of 31 Del.C. § 309 (d), but the individual has a criminal conviction or is or has been on the Child Protection Registry, the Public School shall make a determination regarding suitability for placement using the factors in stated in statute. Information obtained under this subsection is confidential and may only be disclosed to the chief school officer, head of the Public School, the chief personnel officer of the school, and one person in each school who shall be designated to assist in the processing of criminal background checks, receive training in confidentiality and be required to sign an agreement to keep such information confidential.
3.3 The candidate for a Student Teaching Placement in a Delaware Public School shall be subject to the following procedures:
3.4 All costs associated with obtaining a criminal background check shall be paid for by the person seeking a Student Teaching Placement.