GCGPART - TIME AND SUBSTITUTE
PROFESSIONAL STAFF EMPLOYMENT
GCGTemporary and Part-Time
Personnel
The Governing Board has the responsibility to employ such persons as may be needed to conduct the business of the School District. The establishment of employment positions requires official action by the Governing Board; the function of recruiting for employment positions is delegated to the director of human resources, provided that no dependent of a member of the Governing Board, as defined in Arizona Revised Statute 43-1001, may be employed by the District except with the express consent of the Governing Board.
Substitute Teachers
A substitute teacher may be employed in the following instances:
A. Absences while the teacher is receiving contracted compensation from the District.
B. Absences while the teacher is on short-term leave of less than four (4) months.
C. Absences while the teacher is on suspension of less than ten (10) days.
D. When a suitable qualified teacher replacement is being sought.
E. Such other occasions as may be approved by the Director of Human Resources.
Substitute Program
Suitable programs for training, assigning, orienting, and evaluating the work of substitute teachers may be provided by the professional staff under the direction of the Superintendent.
Retired Teachers
Retired teachers may be employed as substitute teachers without jeopardizing their state retirement compensation.
Early Retirees
Teachers who are on the District's early retirement plan may substitute upon completion of their annual obligation days without jeopardizing their District early retirement salary or their state retirement compensation, if applicable.
Job Sharing
Job sharing shall be a voluntary arrangement between two (2) teachers to share one (1) position.
It shall be the responsibility of the principal to approve any request to job share.
When a job-shared position is approved, the following stipulations will be effective:
A. The position will be evaluated annually. The principal will decide whether the job-sharing arrangement will continue or be dissolved.
B. If it is necessary to fill a position vacated by a person who is accepting a job-sharing assignment, that position will be filled on a short-term basis.
C. If the job-sharing participants do not return to full-time status at the end of two (2) years, the vacated position will be filled on a full-time basis and the participants shall forfeit their rights to that position.
D. Job sharing means that the employee will be employed for at least fifty percent (50%) of the school day required of the full-time teacher.
E. A continuing-status teacher who elects to take a job-sharing position will not forfeit continuing status.
F. Job-sharing teachers who have not achieved continuing status may not receive continuing contracts on the basis of part-time assignments.
Due Process
For the purpose of preserving due process, a teacher who has been employed by the School District for more than the major portion of three (3) consecutive school years, who changes from a full-time contract to a less than forty percent (40%) part-time contract shall be advised by the human resources division of the School District that:
A. The less than forty percent (40%) part-time employment will deprive the teacher of certain entitlements, which can be restored only by employment for at least forty percent (40%) time.
B. The change will deprive the teacher of the rights of contract renewal and the protections against dismissal.
C. In any case involving acceptance of less than forty percent (40%) part-time status, the teacher must provide the District with a signed statement of understanding relating to the loss of these rights.
Adopted: date of Manual adoption