Pennsylvania Administrative Code

§ 101.144. Owners and directors; experience. A private driver training school owner or director shall submit documentary evidence of a minimum of 2 years of successful driver education teaching experience in a private driver training school, private high school or public high sch…

§ 101.145. Foreign agents. An individual who acts as an agent representing a school located outside this Commonwealth shall, in addition to the professional staff application, provide evidence clearly demonstrating that the owner of his school has fulfilled all statutory requirem…

§ 101.146. Incomplete applications. Prior to the day on which an applicant is scheduled for examination, the applicant shall file with the Department a completed school staff application together with the required list of three references and the 3 year driving abstract. Failure …

§ 101.147. Professional staff renewal applications. (a) A professional staff license renewal shall be made on an application furnished by the Department (b) An application for a professional staff license renewal shall be filed with the Department on or before April 30 of each ye…

APPLICANT EXAMINATIONS § 101.151. Prerequisite evidence. To qualify as a teacher in a private driver training school, an applicant shall successfully complete written and practical examinations. Prior to testing, an applicant shall obtain a valid Pennsylvania Class A, B or C driv…

§ 101.152. Opportunities to pass. For each original staff application filed with the Department, the applicant will be granted three opportunities to pass the written examination and three opportunities to pass the practical examination after passing the written examination.

§ 101.153. Locations. Examinations shall be given at various stipulated locations throughout this Commonwealth. Times and places may be ascertained by contacting the Department at Private Driver Training Schools; Department of Education; 333 Market Street; Harrisburg, Pennsylvani…

§ 101.154. Identification cards. (a) After an applicant has passed the written and practical examinations, the Department will issue a valid identification card to the school for each teacher. An Instructor’s Examination Permit bearing the stamp of the Department of Transportatio…

§ 101.155. Lost or destroyed identification cards. If an identification card is lost, mutilated or destroyed, the Department will replace the card without charge. To receive replacements for lost, stolen or destroyed identification cards, the teacher shall surrender the mutilated…

§ 101.156. Loss of operating privilege. A teacher who loses his privilege to operate a motor vehicle in this Commonwealth shall immediately surrender his identification card to the Department. A teacher shall also give written notification to his employer and to the Department of…

§ 101.157. Time limits. Applications for teacher identification cards and vehicle identification cards filed after April 30 will be valid until June 30 of the following year.

REEMPLOYMENT § 101.161. Reemployment within 12 months. A teacher changing employment to another school within 12 months of employment shall complete an instructional staff application and submit a criminal history background check to secure a valid identification card.

§ 101.162. Reemployment after 12 months. When a continuous period of 12 months or more has elapsed without employment as a driver training teacher, the applicant shall comply with the requirements stated in § § 101.141—101.143 (relating to professional staff; additional staff app…

§ 101.163. Notice of employment. A school, upon the employment of a new teacher or the reinstatement of a former employe, shall immediately notify the Department of the dates that the employes were employed.

§ 101.164. Termination of employment. A school shall immediately notify the Department upon terminating the employment of a teacher, stating the starting date of employment and the termination date. This information shall be supplied on the forms provided by the Department.

VEHICLES AND INSURANCE § 101.171. Insurance coverage for vehicles. (a) Each school shall provide and maintain insurance on all vehicles used in practical driver training and file a current, valid certificate of insurance for each vehicle with the Department. (b) The minimum requi…

§ 101.172. Vehicle identification card. Each vehicle used for practical driver training shall carry an identification card issued by the Department. It shall be affixed to the right sun visor or in a manner that makes the identification visible to the vehicle’s occupants.

§ 101.173. Age of vehicles. (a) A vehicle used for practical driver training may not be more than 5 years old or have more than 50,000 miles, whichever occurs later. (b) The date appearing on the face of the original certificate of title shall be used as the date the vehicle was …

§ 101.174. Changes or additions to the fleet. A school shall immediately report changes or additions to the teaching fleet to the Department prior to the vehicle being placed in service. Each vehicle added to the school fleet shall be registered with the Department by filing a cu…

§ 101.175. Vehicle identification card renewal applications. (a) A vehicle identification card renewal shall be made on an application furnished by the Department. (b) An application for a vehicle identification card renewal shall be filed with the Department on or before April 3…

§ 101.176. Lost or destroyed vehicle identification cards. If a vehicle identification card is lost, mutilated or destroyed, the Department will replace the card without charge. To receive replacements for lost, stolen or destroyed vehicle identification cards, the licensee shall…

PROGRAM OF INSTRUCTION § 101.181. Outlines to Department. (a) In addition to the requirements in § § 101.111—101.115, an applicant for an original license shall provide the Department with an outline for the theoretical and practical instruction in driver education. (b) Theoretic…

GENERAL PROVISIONS § 11.1. School term. Public prekindergartens, when offered, and kindergartens, elementary and secondary schools shall be kept open each school year for a minimum of 180 days of instruction for students. Days may not be counted as days taught on which the school…

ADMISSION TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS § 11.11. Entitlement of resident children to attend public schools. (a) Entitlement. (1) A school age child is entitled to attend the public schools of the child’s district of residence. A child’s district of residence is that in which the parents or t…

§ 11.12. School age. School age is the period of a child’s life from the earliest admission age to a school district’s kindergarten program until graduation from high school or the end of the school term in which a student reaches the age of 21 years, whichever occurs first. Auth…

§ 11.13. Compulsory school age. Except as otherwise provided by law, compulsory school age refers to the period of a child’s life from the time the child enters school (which may be no later than at the age of 6 years), until the age of 18 or graduation from a high school, whiche…

§ 11.14. Admission to kindergarten when provided. When kindergarten is provided, the board of school directors shall establish the district’s minimum entry age to kindergarten. The minimum entry age to kindergarten may not be less than 4 years, no months, before the first day of …

§ 11.15. Admission of beginners. The board of school directors shall establish the district’s minimum entry age for beginners, which may not be less than a chronological age of 5 years and 7 months before September 1, nor more than 6 years, no months, before the first day of the …

§ 11.16. Early admission of beginners. The board of school directors of a school district may, upon parental request and when recommended by a public school psychologist and approved by the district superintendent of schools, admit as a beginner a child with a chronological age o…

§ 11.18. Nonresident children living in facilities or institutions. (a) The board of school directors of a school district in which there is located a licensed shelter, group home, maternity home, residence, facility, orphanage or other institution for the care or training of chi…

§ 11.19. Nonresident child living with a district resident. (a) A nonresident child is entitled to attend the district’s public schools if that child is fully maintained and supported in the home of a district resident as if the child were the resident’s own child and if the resi…

§ 11.2. School day. Instruction time for students shall be time in the school day devoted to instruction and instructional activities provided as an integral part of the school program under the direction of certified school employees. Authority The provisions of this § 11.2 amen…

§ 11.20. Nonimmunized children. (a) A child may not be admitted to or permitted to attend a public, private, nonpublic, special education or vocational school unless the immunization, exemption, temporary waiver or provisional admission requirements of the Department of Health in…

ABSENCES FOR TEMPORARY PERIODS § 11.21. Religious holidays and religious instruction. (a) Upon written parental request, and in accordance with the policies of the district’s board of school directors, students may be excused from school for religious holidays observed by bona fi…

§ 11.22. Tutorial work. (a) Upon written parental request, a student may be excused during school hours for the purpose of receiving tutorial instruction in a field not offered in the district’s curricula only if the following requirements are met: (1) The excusal does not interf…

§ 11.23. Health care. Upon written parental request, a student may be excused during school hours for the purpose of obtaining professional health care or therapy service only if the following requirements are met: (1) The health or therapeutic services are to be rendered by Comm…

§ 11.24. Unaccounted absences. Students whose names are on the active membership roll, who are at anytime in the school term absent from school for 10 consecutive school days, shall thereafter be removed from the active membership roll unless one of the following occurs: (1) The …

§ 11.25. Temporary excusals due to illness or other urgent reasons. (a) A principal or teacher may, upon receipt of satisfactory evidence of mental, physical or other urgent reasons, excuse a student for nonattendance during a temporary period, but the term ‘‘urgent reasons’’ sha…

§ 11.26. Nonschool district sponsored educational tours and trips. (a) A school district may excuse a student from school attendance to participate in a non-school district sponsored educational tour or trip, if the following conditions are met: (1) The student’s parent or guardi…

§ 11.27. Graduation. The intent of this section is to specify the effect of graduation on membership for the purpose of calculating school subsidies. (1) A student’s graduation from high school signifies both the student’s fulfillment of the high school graduation requirements se…

§ 11.28. Out-of-school programs and part-time employment. (a) Out-of-school programs. For reimbursement purposes, students engaged part-time in an out-of-school program shall be counted as if in regular school attendance. The programs must be arranged as an integral part of the s…

§ 11.3. Minimum required hours. (a) Minimum hours of instruction time for students shall be as follows: Grade Hours PreK—K 2 hours, 30 minutes, each day of the school term, unless exempted from the minimum hours of instructional time under § 11.1 (relating to school term) K 2 hou…

EXCUSALS FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL ATTENDANCE § 11.31. Students not enrolled in public schools due to private tutoring. (a) Private tutoring requirements. (1) The instruction of students not enrolled in public schools due to private tutoring by a qualified tutor under section 1327 of th…

§ 11.31a. Students not enrolled in public schools due to participation in a home education program. Students of compulsory school age participating in a home education program are subject to sections 1327(d) and 1327.1 of the Public School Code of 1949 (24 P. S. § § 13-1327(d) an…

§ 11.32. Students attending nonpublic or private schools. A child of compulsory school age regularly attending full-time a nonpublic school that is in compliance with section 1327(b) of the Public School Code of 1949 (24 P. S. § 13-1327(b)) or an accredited or licensed private sc…

§ 11.33. Dual enrollment students enrolled part-time in the public schools. For reimbursement purposes, membership and attendance of nonpublic school students, students in a private tutoring program under section 1327 of the Public School Code of 1949 (24 P. S. § 13-1327), and st…

§ 11.34. Excusals from attendance for other than temporary reasons. (a) A school district may excuse a school age child from compulsory school attendance upon recommendation of the school physician and a psychiatrist or public school psychologist, or both, and with the approval o…