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Board approves application to seek waiver for international-teacher licensing reciprocity, then recesses for executive session

Sioux Falls School District 49-5 Board of Education · November 25, 2025
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Summary

The board voted to allow staff to apply for an administrative-rule waiver to permit reciprocity for an international educator who lacks a home-country teaching license and falls short of the rule’s three-year experience requirement. After the vote, the board moved to recess and enter executive session under SDCL 1-25-2(2).

The Sioux Falls School District 49-5 board unanimously approved a motion on Nov. 10 permitting staff to apply for an administrative-rule waiver that would allow reciprocity for an international educator’s teaching license.

Becky Dormant explained the request: South Dakota Department of Education administrative rules require a teaching license issued in the educator’s home…

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