P.R. Laws tit. 18, § 260
(1) Teacher’s certificate. — A document issued by the Secretary of Education entitling the holder thereof to engage in the teaching or technical work specified therein.
(2) Provisional teacher’s certificate. — A document provisionally and temporarily authorizing the holder thereof to engage in teaching, when such holder does not meet the qualifications of academic training and experience, or either of them, as required by law and the regulations in force for the granting of a teacher’s certificate.
(3) Accredited. — Refers to normal schools, teaching colleges, liberal arts colleges, science colleges, faculties of social sciences, faculties of humanities, or faculties of natural sciences, and universities, accredited by the Council on Higher Education or by the regional or professional associations of the United States of North America, organized for the official accreditation of university studies.
(4) Teacher. — For the purposes of §§ 260 et seq. of this title, applies to any supervisory, technical and teaching personnel of the school system, excluding office personnel.
(5) Elementary school. — Includes kindergarten to the sixth grade. The teachers to be certified in the kindergarten category must have special training in that area.
(6) Secondary school. — Includes the intermediate school, composed by the seventh, eighth and ninth grades, and the high school, composed of the tenth, eleventh and twelfth grades.
(7) Accredited private school. — Is an elementary, intermediate or high school whose courses are given academic credits equivalent to those granted in public schools or other accredited private schools.
History —June 21, 1955, No. 94, p. 488, § 1; May 11, 1989, No. 8, p. 39.