The board recognizes the need for substitute teachers.  Substitute teachers shall be licensed to teach in Iowa.

It shall be the responsibility of the building principal to maintain a list of substitute teachers who may be called upon to replace regular contract licensed employees.  Individuals whose names do not appear on this list will not be employed as a substitute without specific approval of the superintendent.  It shall be the responsibility of the building principal to fill absences with substitute teachers immediately.

Substitute teachers shall be paid a per diem rate established by the board. 

After ten (10) consecutive days on a single assignment, the degree substitute shall be increased to their placement on the BA salary schedule in relation to their years of experience in teaching.  This is not to exceed step 8 on the schedule.  This schedule is retroactive back to the sixth day on a single assignment.

Any substitute beginning the school year shall have the ten (10) day stipulation waived and they will begin immediately on their appropriate BA step.

Legal Reference:           Iowa Association of School Boards v. PERB, 400 N.W.2d 571 (Iowa 1987).

                                    Iowa Code §§ 20, Iowa Code §§ 272

                                    281 I.A.C. 12.4.

Cross Reference:           405.1      Licensed Employee Defined

                                    405.2      Licensed Employee Qualifications, Recruitment, Selection

Approved:  March 8, 2000             

Last Reviewed:  June 14, 2023                                                                                                                           

East Buchanan Community School District

The East Buchanan CSD shall offer summer school options in accordance with law and may, in its discretion offer additional programming during the summer recess.  Licensed employees who volunteer or who are appointed to deliver the summer education program are compensated in addition to their regular duties during the school academic year, unless such arrangements are made prior to determining the employee's compensation for the year.

Licensed employees will be given the opportunity to volunteer for the positions available.  If the board determines a course must be offered and no licensed employee volunteers for the position, the board will make the necessary arrangements to fill the position.  The board will consider applications from volunteers of current licensed employees in conjunction with other applications.

It is the responsibility of the superintendent to make a recommendation to the board regarding the need for and the delivery of the summer education program.

Legal Reference:           Iowa Code §§ 279.8; 280.14.

Cross Reference:           505.2    Student Promotion – Retention - Acceleration

                                    603.2    Summer School Instruction

Approved:  November 15, 2017              

Last Reviewed:  June 14. 2023                   

East Buchanan Community School District

The board will appoint a licensed employee from each school building to serve as the building's truancy officer. 

The principal shall notify the truancy officer when a student is truant.  The truancy officer will investigate the cause of a student's truancy and attempt to ensure the student's attendance.  The truancy officer may take the student into custody.  A student taken into custody shall be placed in the custody of the principal.  The truancy officer will attempt to contact the student's parents when the student is taken into custody.

Legal Reference:           Iowa Code §§ 299.10-.11, .15

Cross Reference:           501.10  Truancy - Unexcused Absences

Approved:  March 8, 2000          

Last Reviewed:  June 14, 2023

EAST BUCHANAN CSD

The board may employ education  associates or other instructional support personnel to assist licensed personnel in nonteaching duties, including, but not limited to:

        ·        managing and maintaining records, materials and equipment;

        ·        attending to the physical needs of children; and

        ·        performing other limited services to support teaching duties when such duties are determined and directed by the teacher.

Education associates who hold a teaching certificate are compensated at the rate of pay established for their position as an education associate.  It is the responsibility of the principal to supervise education associates.

Legal Reference:           Iowa Code §§ 279.8; 280.3, .14

                                    281 I.A.C. 12.4(9); .5(9).

Cross Reference:           411.2    Classified Employee Qualifications, Recruitment, Selection

Approved:  June 14, 2006               

Last Reviewed:   June 14, 2023

East Buchanan Community School District