SHEARS System Relaunch Provides Cosmetology Schools Full Access
Summary
TDLR announced that the SHEARS system will relaunch on Monday, October 21, 2024, restoring full access for all licensed cosmetology and barbering schools to track student educational hours. Schools will continue reporting core hours under the core permit and specialty hours under the specialty permit until a streamlined enrollment process is implemented in November. Additional FAQs and live training sessions will be provided to help schools navigate the system.
What changed
TDLR announced the relaunch of the SHEARS licensing and hour-tracking system for cosmetology and barbering schools. The system will be fully accessible starting October 21, 2024. Schools must continue using the current dual-permit reporting structure until November improvements streamline the enrollment process to eliminate duplicate data entry.
Schools affected by this change should monitor for forthcoming FAQs and register for upcoming live training sessions to learn about system improvements and the new enrollment workflow.
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SHEARS will relaunch on Monday, October 21, 2024, and all schools will have full access to SHEARS.
Thank you for your patience over the past weeks.
Schools will continue to report core hours under the core permit and specialty hours under the specialty permit until we implement improvements in November that will streamline the posting process.
The new enrollment process will no longer require schools to enter a student’s data twice during enrollment.
We know you have questions about these processes, and we’ll be issuing additional instructions and guidelines to help you. We’ll post the FAQs that were collected during the previous Live Sessions to the website.
We are finalizing dates and times for more online Live Sessions where you can ask questions and learn more about the improvements we’re making.
Sign up for a training date and time.
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