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Mississippi Licensure Guidelines require that all educators submit a completed application with any licensure request.

APPLICATION PROCESS

  1. Read Licensure Instructions and Checklist to locate the license for which you are applying.
  2. Collect documents required for your license and check off correlating boxes on Licensure Checklist
  3. Complete Licensure Application
  4. Send Licensure Application Packet and all documents required in your license category in a single,complete packet to the Mississippi Department of Education, Office of Educator Licensure, P.O. Box 771, Jackson, MS 39205-0771.

Incomplete packets will be returned to the applicant with no action taken.

Licensure Application Packet
District Request Licenses http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/ed_licensure/licensure_application.htm

If a Mississippi school district has a teaching vacancy that cannot be filled with a certified teacher, the district can request a one-year license for a teacher that is not certified. Applications for district request licenses are linked below. All 1-year district requests must contain a plan of action through which the teacher agrees to obtain fully certification.

• One-year License for Veteran Educators: this license is for teachers who hold full certification but are teaching out-of-field

• Three year Interim Certificate: this license is for teachers who are not certified.

• One-year Interim Certificate Highly Qualified: this one-year license can be requested by the district for non-certified teachers who have met requirements and been accepted into the Masters of Arts in Teaching alternate route program but are not yet ready for the MAT 3-yr license.

Core and Non-Core MCLB subject areas

 

Copies of the Mississippi Department of Educator Licensure forms have been created in a Portable Document Format (PDF) format. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to read PDF documents. It is available free of charge from Adobe by clicking on the Acrobat logo.

 

 

 
 

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