Policies

G-3761.1 GCG-R
PART - TIME AND SUBSTITUTE
PROFESSIONAL STAFF EMPLOYMENT

Part-Time Teachers

The relationship between the District and part-time teachers employed by the District, and the legal rights of each, shall be determined by the written contracts of employment, which shall, for all purposes, be deemed to include and be subject to all applicable state and federal laws.

Standard of performance.
The duties of a part-time teacher are the same as those of a certificated teacher who has been employed by the District for more than the major portion of three consecutive school years. The part-time teacher is expected to achieve and maintain a level and standard of performance established and/or required by the Governing Board. Continued inability to satisfy the Governing Board's described standard of performance will result in termination of the teacher's employment.

Evaluation.
Each part-time teacher will be evaluated in the classroom and by other means at least once each school semester. Right to contract.
Part-time teachers shall not have an automatic right to contract for the following year except as provided by law for such teachers who are certificated teachers who have been employed by the District for more than the major portion of three consecutive school years and who are employed under contract for at least 40 percent time.

Employment on a per-diem or voucher basis.
In accordance with District policy, when extraordinary conditions demand, and without prior approval by the Governing Board, temporary or substitute personnel may be employed on a per-diem or voucher basis subject to the following conditions:

Summer School Teachers

All openings for summer school positions will be publicized in each school building by the Superintendent as early as practicable. Teachers who have applied for such positions will be notified of the actions taken regarding their applications as early as practicable, and in any case, prior to official Governing Board appointment to such positions. Summer school openings ordinarily will be publicized not later than the preceding March 1 and ordinarily teachers will be notified of the actions taken not later than May 15.

A teacher who has authored a special course (not listed in the school course description booklet) will be given preference to teach that course. These special courses must receive approval from the Governing Board and be subject to student enrollment for funding.

For courses listed in the school course description booklet, teaching positions in the summer school will be filled first by certificated teachers in the District school system insofar as such preferences are practical and consistent with the educational needs of the District.

In filling such positions, selection will be based upon the following criteria:

Substitute Teachers

Each substitute teacher must be a certificated teacher under current Arizona school law or must be an "associate teacher" as permitted by Arizona school law. All such teachers must adhere to policies established by the State Board of Education and by the Governing Board of the School District.

Substitute teachers are paid $75.00 per day, which becomes $100.00 per day after teaching 20 consecutive days in a specific assignment. (Exceptions can be made for absences of three or fewer days, at the discretion of the building administrator.) After an additional 20-day period, a substitute teacher is paid according to the District salary schedule for certificated employees, and shall receive all fringe benefits to which all other certificated employees are entitled. Contracted pay is through the use of time sheets. Regular deductions for state and federal income taxes and for Social Security withholding are made.

Substitutes are contacted and assigned from the central substitute office of the human resources division.

The duty period is the regular duty hours of the absent teacher.

Substitutes will take any regular or special duties that have been assigned to the regular teacher for the time the teacher is being relieved.

Deviations from the substitute's duty schedule are made only with approval by the principal's office.

Adopted: date of manual adoption
Revised: ______________