Doctorate in Ed?

[VintageGirl85]

I thought the BA + 45 + MA pay bump was obtained through graduate credits, not undergraduate credits. If that is the case, your Sophia credits are probably as you say, "useless." Please correct me if I am wrong.

Graduate credits at ISU are cheap and should count toward the next bay pump as they are regionally accredited. https://www.isu.edu/onlinepd/
They offer a $200 scholarship for your first course. Unfortunately, these courses do not lead to a degree.

Perhaps you could earn a second master's for $3000 from the regionally accredited Hellenic American University (HAU) of Nashua, NH, to get you to the BA + 90 +MA level. https://mba.hauniv.edu/academics/mba-program/
It would be nice to leverage the MBA and your teaching credentials as a consultant in the corporate education sector.

The American College of Education, Ed.D program looks great, but it will still take three-plus years to break even on the pay bump. You are young, so time is on your side!  https://ace.edu/degree-programs/doctoral...nstruction

 This is what they follow in my district/state:      
WAC 392-121-255 Definition—Academic credits. As used in this chapter, "academic credits" means credits determined as follows: (1) Credits are earned after the awarding or conferring of the employee's first bachelor's degree; (2) Credits are earned on or before October 1 of the year for which allocations are being calculated pursuant to this chapter; (3) Credits are earned from an accredited institution of higher education: Provided, That credits, determined eligible pursuant to subsections (1), (2), (4) and (6) of this section, earned from any other accredited community college, college, or university and reported on Form S-275 on or before December 31, 1992, shall continue to be reported; (4) Credits are transferrable or applicable to a bachelor's or more advanced degree program: Provided, That for educational courses which are the same or identical no more credits for that educational course than are transferrable or applicable to a bachelor's or more advanced degree program at that institution shall be counted; (5) Credits earned after September 1, 1995, must satisfy the additional requirements of WAC 392-121-262; (6) Credits are not counted as in-service credits pursuant to WAC 392-121-257 or nondegree credits pursuant to WAC 392-121-259; (7) The number of credits equals the number of quarter hours, units or semester hours each converted to quarter hours earned pursuant to this section; and (8) Accumulate credits rounded to one decimal place.