Policy: 5610

Section: 5000 - Personnel

Title: Substitute Employment

Status: Active

Adopted: July 26, 1990

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Substitute Employment

The board authorizes the employment of a certificated substitute in the absence of a certificated staff member. In addition, the district may use a substitute in place of a regularly-contracted staff member when:

A. Enrollment uncertainties exist at the beginning of a school year; or

B. Resignations of regular staff do not allow sufficient time for the district to employ an immediate replacement.

On either of the latter occasions the district will employ a contracted staff person within a reasonable time.

The superintendent will be responsible for establishing procedures by which teachers request substitutes and by which substitute teachers are assigned, employed and compensated.

Substitute teachers who have served for 20 full consecutive working days in the same assignment shall, from the 21st day of service on, be paid according to the regular salary schedule of certificated staff.

The board authorizes the employment of a spouse of a board member as a substitute teacher when the superintendent deems that there is a shortage of substitute teachers in the district.

Retired teachers or administrators may work up to eight hundred sixty-seven (867) hours of employment.

If the superintendent reasonably anticipates that the list of qualified, willing substitutes will be exhausted, emergency substitute certification may be sought from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction for persons not fully qualified for a teaching or substitute certificate. Substitutes holding emergency certification may only be assigned work when the list of fully-qualified substitutes is exhausted.

The board authorizes the employment of a classified substitute in the absence of a classified staff member when a program will be adversely affected by the regular staff member’s absence and when a substitute can perform the duties in a reasonable manner. A classified substitute employee’s eligibility to purchase retirement service credit will be determined according to RCW 41.35 and retirement system rules.  Substitute classified employee means a classified employee who is employed by the district exclusively as a substitute for an absent employee. The superintendent is authorized to establish procedures relating to the use of substitute classified staff.

 

Cross References:
Policy 1610	Conflicts of Interest
Policy 5612	Temporary Administrators
Legal References:
RCW 28A.330.240	Employment Contracts
RCW 28A.400.300	Hiring and discharging employees — Written leave policies — Seniority and leave benefits of employees transferring between school districts and other educational employers
RCW 28A.405.900	Certain certificated employees exempt from chapter provisions
RCW 28A.410.010	Certification — Duty of professional educator standards board — Rules — Record check — Lapsed certificates —Superintendent of Public Instruction as administrator
RCW 41.32.570	Post retirement employment — Reduction or suspension of pension payments
RCW 41.35	Washington school employees' retirement system
RCW 42.23.030(9)	Interest in contracts prohibited —Exceptions
Management Resources:
Policy News	August 2011 Legislature refines the retire/rehire law
Policy News	Substitute Employment
Policy News	Legislature Authorizes “Retire-Rehire”

 

Adoption Date: 07.26.90

Ferndale School District

Revised: 09.24.92; 03.23.95; 08.29.95; 08.29.96; 08.28.97;09.30.99; 03.30.00; 10.25.01; 09.30.14