Welcome to the Montana Board of Public Education Website
Teacher licensure/certification questions? please click here or call (406)444-3150.
GED (General Education Degree) Question? Please call (406)444-4438.
Home Schooling your child? Please call (406)444-0375.
Attached are the links to the application on the Academy Board and to HB459 establishing the Academy. The completed application is due 5:00 p.m., July 8, 2009 to Steve Meloy, smeloy@mt.gov or Board of Public Education, 46 N Last Chance Gulch, PO Box 200601, Helena, MT 59620.http://opi.mt.gov/PDF/Superintendent/Virtual_Academy_
App.pdf
http://opi.mt.gov/PDF/Superintendent/HB0459.pdf
Notice of Public Hearing on Proposed Adoption, Amendment, and Repeal to Math Content Standards and Performance Descriptors. Scheduled for June 22, 2009 at 10:30 a.m. in the OPI Confernce Room at 1300 11th Avenue in Helena.
Notice of Public Hearing on Proposed Adoption, Amendment, and Repeal to ARM 10.57.412 and 10.57.527 Pertaining to Mentor Teachers. Scheduled for June 22, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. at the OPI Conference Room at 1300 11th Avenue in Helena.
Administrative Rules of Montana Link: http://www.mtrules.org/
The Certification Standards and Practices Advisory Council would like to welcome Jon Runnalls as the new Teacher K-8 member for the Council. Mr. Runnalls is an educator from East Helena. He will join the Council for the first time at the July 23, 2009 meeting in Helena.
Class 8 - Dual Credit Only Postsecondary Faculty License Application Link: http://www.opi.mt.gov/Cert/Index2.html#C8
Notice: The Montana Board of Public Education is a Renewal Unit Provider. If you attend a Board of Public Education meeting, or a Certification Standards and Practices Advisory Council meeting, you may be eligible to receive renewal units. Please contact Anneliese Warhank for more information at 444-6576 or awarhank@mt.gov.
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The Board of Public Education was created by the Montana Constitution of 1972 to exercise general supervision over the elementary and secondary schools of the state.
Some of the things we do include:
- Adopt standards of accreditation for Montana schools and establish the accreditation status of each school
- Effect a system of teacher certification, including the accreditation of the teacher and administrator training programs
- Consider the suspension or revocation of teacher certificates and hear appeals from the denial of teacher certificates
- Administer and order the distribution of state equalization aid
- Adopt policies for the special education of handicapped and gifted and talented students
- Act as the governing agency for the Montana School for the Deaf and Blind
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Last updated June 1, 2009.
