Dead beat Texas Legislature guilty of abandoning about five million children.
Nov 21, 2012
Oct 17, 2012
"Best Cities for Teachers in 2012" blog mentions Texas twice
A "Best Cities for Teachers in 2012" blog mentions Texas twice. Click here for the entire article: http://mat.usc.edu/best-cities-for-teachers-in-2012/
No matter where you work, a teaching career offers a wide range of intangible rewards. Job satisfaction, an interesting daily routine and freedom from corporate power struggles are just a few of the non-material benefits of teaching.
When it comes to the more tangible rewards of the job, location can mean everything. Salaries and benefits for teachers vary from state to state, and some cities and school districts are more teacher-friendly than others. Demand for elementary, middle and high school teachers is expected to grow between now and 2018 as large numbers of teachers from the Baby Boomer generation reach retirement age, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS predicts the greatest demand will occur in states in the south and west. Job prospects for teachers will be best in urban areas and in high demand fields, such as science, mathematics and bilingual education.
In coming up with our list of best cities for teachers in 2012, we looked at cities across the country and classified them according to their compensation, benefits and teacher-to-student ratio. We also took a variety of lifestyle factors into account, including cost of living, proximity to fun activities, cultural opportunities and low crime rates.
Check out these top cities for teachers in 2012:
Oct 11, 2012
Houston Business Leaders Want to Cash In On the Texas Teacher Retirement System
Battle Brewing Over Texas Public Pensions
Texas could be gearing up for its own Wisconsin-style grudge match over public employee benefits.
A group of high-powered Houston business leaders is starting a statewide campaign to overhaul retirement for future teachers, firefighters, police officers, judges and other state and local government workers.
Sep 20, 2012
McAllen, Texas Teachers Following the Chicago Teachers' Strike - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com
A great report on Texas Teachers and the strike in Chicago.
Read the entire article here: McAllen, Texas Teachers Following the Chicago Teachers' Strike - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com
Can everyone please take a seat so we can get started?
Like many others in McAllen and across the country, I have been keeping a close tab on the Chicago teachers’ strike. Within the last hour, I read that in a somewhat surprising move, the teachers voted to extend the strike until at least Wednesday to give them more time to carefully study their proposed contract. While I feel for the children in Chicago, I also understand how critical this contract is for the teachers and hope it will be resolved no later than Wednesday.
As I’ve read and listened to reports on the strike, a few things in particular have stood out:
*The first reports indicated that the driving force behind the strike was the decision to base up to 40 percent of the teachers’ evaluations on standardized test results. Most good teachers welcome the idea of being evaluated on outcomes, as long as those outcomes are evaluated fairly. I have yet to see a system that takes into account student attendance, motivation (or lack thereof) and study habits. I also have never seen a system that takes into account that one English I teacher, for example, might teach the highest level students while another teacher has a class full of students who did not meet the minimum passing standards on last year’s standardized test. If such an assessment were devised, I believe most good teachers would welcome it. Contrary to what many might believe, good/great teachers don’t want students to be subjected to bad teachers...
Read the entire article here: McAllen, Texas Teachers Following the Chicago Teachers' Strike - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com
Read the entire article here: McAllen, Texas Teachers Following the Chicago Teachers' Strike - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com
Can everyone please take a seat so we can get started?
Like many others in McAllen and across the country, I have been keeping a close tab on the Chicago teachers’ strike. Within the last hour, I read that in a somewhat surprising move, the teachers voted to extend the strike until at least Wednesday to give them more time to carefully study their proposed contract. While I feel for the children in Chicago, I also understand how critical this contract is for the teachers and hope it will be resolved no later than Wednesday.
As I’ve read and listened to reports on the strike, a few things in particular have stood out:
*The first reports indicated that the driving force behind the strike was the decision to base up to 40 percent of the teachers’ evaluations on standardized test results. Most good teachers welcome the idea of being evaluated on outcomes, as long as those outcomes are evaluated fairly. I have yet to see a system that takes into account student attendance, motivation (or lack thereof) and study habits. I also have never seen a system that takes into account that one English I teacher, for example, might teach the highest level students while another teacher has a class full of students who did not meet the minimum passing standards on last year’s standardized test. If such an assessment were devised, I believe most good teachers would welcome it. Contrary to what many might believe, good/great teachers don’t want students to be subjected to bad teachers...
Read the entire article here: McAllen, Texas Teachers Following the Chicago Teachers' Strike - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com
Aug 31, 2012
Was Christie Right About Teacher Unions?
What do public school teachers think of the state of public education in America, teachers' unions and their roles, and who has the best interests of our children and our teachers at heart?
New Report Highlights Impacts of Teacher Layoffs, Need to Invest in Education
WASHINGTON, DC – The White House today released a new report that finds
that the loss of teachers and other education staff is forcing
communities into difficult choices that harm our children’s education
and future, including increasing class sizes and shortening school years
and days. The report shows that more than 300,000 local education jobs
have been lost since the end of the recession – a figure that stands in
stark contrast to previous economic recoveries. As a result, the
national student-teacher ratio increased by 4.6 percent from 2008 to
2010, rolling back all the gains made since 2000. Increased class sizes
have negative consequences for the future of America’s children at a
time when education has never been more important to finding a good job
and maintaining our competitiveness as a nation. A copy of the full report is attached.
Jul 27, 2012
Texas Ranks an Abysmal 44th in Children’s Health and Well-Being
Texas
Ranks an Abysmal 44th in Children’s Health and Well-Being: Texas ranks
44th among the states in overall child health and well-being, according to data
released today by the Annie E. Casey Foundation in its 2012 KIDS COUNT Data
Book. The data book examines how children are doing in four key
domains—economic well-being, education, health, and family and community.
"Texas accounts for one of every 11 kids in this country," said Frances Deviney, Texas KIDS COUNT director at the Center for Public Policy Priorities. "The choices we make now to improve our kids' lives will drive not only the future of Texas, but the future of our country. Texas needs to prioritize its policy choices by investing in children first since we are producing the next generation of leaders.” You can read the Texas fact sheet from the KIDS COUNT Data Book here: http://www.cppp.org/files/10/2012KC_state_profile2_TX.pdf.
And yet, our lawmakers continue to drastically cut Texas public education and healthcare funds. There are other options, but divisive politics and short-sighted planning continue to hurt our children and our future.
"Texas accounts for one of every 11 kids in this country," said Frances Deviney, Texas KIDS COUNT director at the Center for Public Policy Priorities. "The choices we make now to improve our kids' lives will drive not only the future of Texas, but the future of our country. Texas needs to prioritize its policy choices by investing in children first since we are producing the next generation of leaders.” You can read the Texas fact sheet from the KIDS COUNT Data Book here: http://www.cppp.org/files/10/2012KC_state_profile2_TX.pdf.
And yet, our lawmakers continue to drastically cut Texas public education and healthcare funds. There are other options, but divisive politics and short-sighted planning continue to hurt our children and our future.
School Land Board Witholds $300M Targeted for Public Schools
School
Land Board Holds Back $300 Million Legislators Assumed Available for Current
Budget:
Under a constitutional amendment approved by Texas voters last November, the
legislature authorized the School Land Board to transfer $300 million to plug
into the state budget for public education. Lawmakers last June had already
built the expected $300 million into their two-year budget for public schools
and correspondingly reduced by $300 million the amount of general revenue allocated
to public education.
However, apparently nobody made sure the School Land Board would use the new authority as lawmakers wished, and now the School Land Board has balked at making the transfer of funds. As reported in the Texas Tribune, the Republican author of the constitutional amendment, Rob Orr of Burleson, said: “Everything was put in place to allow that to happen….I believe it needed to happen, so I’m not sure why it didn’t.” But acting to “allow” something to happen doesn’t ensure that it will, and now the legislature is going to have to come up with $300 million in a supplemental budget bill when it meets again in January, unless the School Land Board relents.
So why did the School Land Board do it? According to the Texas Tribune:
In the meantime, Rep. Rob Eissler, chairman of the House Public Education Committee, said the school land board’s vote was unfortunate.
“Government doesn’t always work the way we want it to,” said Eissler, R-The Woodlands. “Legislative intent doesn't always follow through to the very end.
In spite of the "it's not my fault" attitude of our lawmakers, Rob Orr and Rob Eissler, Texas schools will continue to suffer from the $5.4 Billion budget cut from our Texas legislators this year.
However, apparently nobody made sure the School Land Board would use the new authority as lawmakers wished, and now the School Land Board has balked at making the transfer of funds. As reported in the Texas Tribune, the Republican author of the constitutional amendment, Rob Orr of Burleson, said: “Everything was put in place to allow that to happen….I believe it needed to happen, so I’m not sure why it didn’t.” But acting to “allow” something to happen doesn’t ensure that it will, and now the legislature is going to have to come up with $300 million in a supplemental budget bill when it meets again in January, unless the School Land Board relents.
So why did the School Land Board do it? According to the Texas Tribune:
The backdrop to the conflict is a perennial tug-of-war between lawmakers and the two state boards that control the $26 billion trust known as the Permanent School Fund. Though the School Land Board manages the fund’s real estate assets, it’s the 15-member State Board of Education that decides, with some guidance from the Constitution, how much of the trust to pay out into the Available School Fund. Because it can free up money in other parts of the budget — for example, what happened with the appropriations bill in special session — lawmakers tend to want as much in the Available School Fund as they can get.
In the meantime, Rep. Rob Eissler, chairman of the House Public Education Committee, said the school land board’s vote was unfortunate.
“Government doesn’t always work the way we want it to,” said Eissler, R-The Woodlands. “Legislative intent doesn't always follow through to the very end.
In spite of the "it's not my fault" attitude of our lawmakers, Rob Orr and Rob Eissler, Texas schools will continue to suffer from the $5.4 Billion budget cut from our Texas legislators this year.
Next Year’s School Budgets Won’t Suffer if Federal Aid Sequestered
Source: AFT
Next Year’s School Budgets Won’t Suffer if Federal Aid Sequestered—New Guidance: Two months ago the Texas Education Agency told school districts they should plan on getting much less than expected from federal grants for school year 2012-2013, based on fear that a 2011 federal deficit-reduction law would kick in automatically next January and immediately “sequester”—i.e., cut--education aid. Today TEA sent out a new guidance letter to school superintendents telling them, in effect, “never mind.” What changed? On July 20, TEA’s new letter notes, the U.S. Department of Education released its own authoritative guidance to states advising that any such sequestration would be implemented “in a way that would not affect funding for the 2012-2013 school year.” (The only exception would be federal funds flowing directly to districts for “Impact Aid” grants.)
Budget uncertainty caused by the federal deficit-reduction law will remain a factor in planning for the school year after next. But districts no longer have reason to hesitate to make needed expenditures for next school year out of concern over reduced federal aid.
Next Year’s School Budgets Won’t Suffer if Federal Aid Sequestered—New Guidance: Two months ago the Texas Education Agency told school districts they should plan on getting much less than expected from federal grants for school year 2012-2013, based on fear that a 2011 federal deficit-reduction law would kick in automatically next January and immediately “sequester”—i.e., cut--education aid. Today TEA sent out a new guidance letter to school superintendents telling them, in effect, “never mind.” What changed? On July 20, TEA’s new letter notes, the U.S. Department of Education released its own authoritative guidance to states advising that any such sequestration would be implemented “in a way that would not affect funding for the 2012-2013 school year.” (The only exception would be federal funds flowing directly to districts for “Impact Aid” grants.)
Budget uncertainty caused by the federal deficit-reduction law will remain a factor in planning for the school year after next. But districts no longer have reason to hesitate to make needed expenditures for next school year out of concern over reduced federal aid.
Jul 6, 2012
Julián Castro says Rick Perry's administration left “12,000 teachers without a job”
In his June 8, 2012, keynote speech at the Texas Democratic Party
convention, San Antonio’s mayor told the crowd that cuts to education
spending harm future economic growth.
"Every Texan knows that, except (Governor) Rick Perry," Julián Castro told the crowd. "His Republican administration cut $4 billion out of our public schools. That's 12,000 Texas teachers without a job."
Castro’s reference to a $4 billion cut is very familiar. As we noted in an April 2012 fact check, the 2011 Legislature changed school finance formulas so schools would get $4 billion less than if the formulas had stayed the same. Perry signed the formula changes into law.
But Castro’s claim about 12,000 teachers going jobless as a result was new to us. Is he right?...
"Every Texan knows that, except (Governor) Rick Perry," Julián Castro told the crowd. "His Republican administration cut $4 billion out of our public schools. That's 12,000 Texas teachers without a job."
Castro’s reference to a $4 billion cut is very familiar. As we noted in an April 2012 fact check, the 2011 Legislature changed school finance formulas so schools would get $4 billion less than if the formulas had stayed the same. Perry signed the formula changes into law.
But Castro’s claim about 12,000 teachers going jobless as a result was new to us. Is he right?...
Texas Schools Grapple With Big Budget Cuts: NPR
Here is a very succinct summary of the effects of massive cuts to education in Texas. These are but a few of the examples of how schools are struggling to keep the quality of education high while cutting programs and teachers and adding students to classrooms.
READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE
Texas Schools Grapple With Big Budget Cuts: NPR
School funding in Texas is in turmoil. State lawmakers slashed more than $4 billion from education this school year — one of the largest cuts in state history — and more than 12,000 teachers and support staff have been laid off.
Academic programs and transportation have been cut to the bone. Promising reforms are on hold or on the chopping block. Next year, the cuts could go even deeper.
Schools in Pasadena, just outside Houston, have seen tight budgets before, but never like this. There was $21 million in cuts this fall alone and 340 positions eliminated, Candace Ahlfinger, an associate superintendent of schools in Pasadena, says. Of those cuts, about 180 were teaching positions and 160 were support staff, she says.
Special education teachers who worked with dyslexic kids: gone. Teachers' aides: gone. Dozens of bus drivers, crossing guards and security personnel: gone.
With the district's $350 million budget shrinking and more cuts on the horizon, Ahlfinger says: "Everything has been on the chopping block. There's not been a sacred cow. There's nothing that we have said 'No, we cannot touch that.'"
The state granted Pasadena schools a waiver so that the district could legally raise class size above the maximum 22 mandated in grades K-4. About 7,000 schools have been granted such waivers statewide, a three-fold increase from last year.
READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE
Texas Schools Grapple With Big Budget Cuts: NPR
School funding in Texas is in turmoil. State lawmakers slashed more than $4 billion from education this school year — one of the largest cuts in state history — and more than 12,000 teachers and support staff have been laid off.
Academic programs and transportation have been cut to the bone. Promising reforms are on hold or on the chopping block. Next year, the cuts could go even deeper.
Schools in Pasadena, just outside Houston, have seen tight budgets before, but never like this. There was $21 million in cuts this fall alone and 340 positions eliminated, Candace Ahlfinger, an associate superintendent of schools in Pasadena, says. Of those cuts, about 180 were teaching positions and 160 were support staff, she says.
Special education teachers who worked with dyslexic kids: gone. Teachers' aides: gone. Dozens of bus drivers, crossing guards and security personnel: gone.
With the district's $350 million budget shrinking and more cuts on the horizon, Ahlfinger says: "Everything has been on the chopping block. There's not been a sacred cow. There's nothing that we have said 'No, we cannot touch that.'"
The state granted Pasadena schools a waiver so that the district could legally raise class size above the maximum 22 mandated in grades K-4. About 7,000 schools have been granted such waivers statewide, a three-fold increase from last year.
Jun 28, 2012
Comptroller Susan Combs says state lawmakers did not cut public education funding-False
Comptroller Susan Combs says state lawmakers did not cut public education funding: FALSE
Read the entire article here.
State Comptroller Susan Combs, whose duties include oversight of state finances, delivered a contradictory assessment of how Texas lawmakers treated public schools while writing the state budget in 2011.
According to a news story in the Bryan-College Station Eagle, Combs was asked by a local audience member on April 4, 2012, how much the state cut from public education. The story says Combs replied that the state didn't reduce funding, instead adding $2 billion.
"It was not less, but it was not as much," Combs said, according to the story, which we learned of from an April 6, 2012, Twitter post by state Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin. His accompanying message described Combs’ not less-but not as much statement as the "effort to hide education budget cuts, in 1 sentence."
Our ruling
Lawmakers cut public school aid, mainly by changing an established funding formula and reducing aid to targeted programs. To say otherwise is inaccurate, misleading and by a wide margin ridiculous.
State Comptroller Susan Combs, whose duties include oversight of state finances, delivered a contradictory assessment of how Texas lawmakers treated public schools while writing the state budget in 2011.
According to a news story in the Bryan-College Station Eagle, Combs was asked by a local audience member on April 4, 2012, how much the state cut from public education. The story says Combs replied that the state didn't reduce funding, instead adding $2 billion.
"It was not less, but it was not as much," Combs said, according to the story, which we learned of from an April 6, 2012, Twitter post by state Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin. His accompanying message described Combs’ not less-but not as much statement as the "effort to hide education budget cuts, in 1 sentence."
Our ruling
Lawmakers cut public school aid, mainly by changing an established funding formula and reducing aid to targeted programs. To say otherwise is inaccurate, misleading and by a wide margin ridiculous.
Jun 22, 2012
Apr 29, 2012
Politics and Education Don't Mix - The Atlantic
Read the entire article here:
Politics and Education Don't Mix - The Atlantic
Governors and presidents are no better suited to run schools than they are to run construction sites, and it's time our education system reflected that fact.
A central flaw of corporate paradigms, as is often noted in popular culture, is the mind-numbing and dehumanizing effect of bureaucracy. Sometimes we are horrified and sometimes we laugh, but arguments for or against the free market may be misguided if we fail to address bureaucracy's corrosive role in the business model.
Current claims about private, public, or charter schools in the education reform movement, which has its roots in the mid-nineteenth century, may also be masking a much more important call to confront and even dismantle the bureaucracy that currently cripples universal public education in the U.S. "Successful teaching and good school cultures don't have a formula," argued legal reformer Philip K. Howard earlier in this series, "but they have a necessary condition: teachers and principals must feel free to act on their best instincts....This is why we must bulldoze school bureaucracy."
Politics and Education Don't Mix - The Atlantic
Governors and presidents are no better suited to run schools than they are to run construction sites, and it's time our education system reflected that fact.
A central flaw of corporate paradigms, as is often noted in popular culture, is the mind-numbing and dehumanizing effect of bureaucracy. Sometimes we are horrified and sometimes we laugh, but arguments for or against the free market may be misguided if we fail to address bureaucracy's corrosive role in the business model.
Current claims about private, public, or charter schools in the education reform movement, which has its roots in the mid-nineteenth century, may also be masking a much more important call to confront and even dismantle the bureaucracy that currently cripples universal public education in the U.S. "Successful teaching and good school cultures don't have a formula," argued legal reformer Philip K. Howard earlier in this series, "but they have a necessary condition: teachers and principals must feel free to act on their best instincts....This is why we must bulldoze school bureaucracy."
Apr 22, 2012
Texas AFT Survey Shows Destructive Budget Cuts Hitting Students and Teachers Hard
Texas AFT Survey Shows Destructive Budget Cuts Hitting Students and Teachers Hard
http://tx.aft.org/index.cfm?action=article&articleID=fa75fb39-020b-4139-b2d3-ce8f4d3cf68c
Download the full report:
http://docs.texasaft.org/publications/TexasAFT_BudgetCutsSurvey12012011.pdf
A recent Texas AFT web survey of more than 3,500 teachers, school employees and parents reveals the extent to which our schools are experiencing widespread layoffs, cuts to key programs and services, larger class sizes, and stressful conditions for teaching and learning—all related to the $5.4 billion in state budget cuts enacted this year.
In addition to quantifying some of the impacts,
teachers and other school employees consistently commented on
significantly lower morale from lack of resources to teach
schoolchildren, and from longer work hours, more duties, increased
paperwork, bullying by administrators, reduced planning time and lack of
learning materials and supplies.
“The numbers reported for layoffs and larger class
sizes confirm the direct impact on classroom instruction,” said Linda
Bridges, Texas AFT president. “Our teachers are doing their best to
mitigate the damage of these cuts, but it’s disturbing to hear comments
on how much less time they have—both in giving students the personal
attention they need to succeed and in preparing for their classes,
grading papers and trying to meet the expectations for achievement on
the more rigorous STAAR exam this spring. It’s as if the state gave
schools a higher bar to hurdle this year, then dug a deep ditch in front
of it.”
Some 92 percent of respondents noted layoffs in
their district, with a large percentage reporting loss of teachers (85
percent) and teacher assistants (79 percent).
“Advocates for special education also will be
disheartened to hear that 44 percent of respondents reported layoffs of
special education teachers, while further comments highlighted large
class sizes for special education students and reduced time to meet
their education plans,” Bridges said.
Apr 18, 2012
Survey: Teachers feel bullied by campus administrators
Survey: Teachers feel bullied by campus administrators
The Houston Federation of Teachers released a survey Wednesday that shows many Houston Independent School District teachers feel they are the targets of bullying at the hands of their own campus administrators.
More than 2,500 teachers responded to the survey, which asked, "Is your boss a bully?"
The overwhelming majority answered yes and blamed school principals and assistant principals.
"The most common administrative abuse is screaming at employees to correct them or reprimand them," said HFT President Gayle Fallon. "That's not how you treat people."
Survey responses were sent from nearly every district campus and included comments such as:
HISD released a statement in response to the survey.
The Houston Federation of Teachers released a survey Wednesday that shows many Houston Independent School District teachers feel they are the targets of bullying at the hands of their own campus administrators.
More than 2,500 teachers responded to the survey, which asked, "Is your boss a bully?"
The overwhelming majority answered yes and blamed school principals and assistant principals.
"The most common administrative abuse is screaming at employees to correct them or reprimand them," said HFT President Gayle Fallon. "That's not how you treat people."
Survey responses were sent from nearly every district campus and included comments such as:
- An administrator allegedly makes fun of pregnant teachers; publicly tells them they should plan their pregnancies for the summer when they're off.
- Disrespected a co-worker by placing a hand on their face and not letting them talk.
- When there are dangerous situations, such as weapons on campus, we are prohibited from telling anyone.
HISD released a statement in response to the survey.
Feb 7, 2012
No Substitute for Integrity
Many certified substitutes are frustrated at their treatment by Fort Bend ISD's human resources department.
In one particular case, the principal of an elementary school in Fort Bend made a verbal agreement with a substitute to work from the beginning of the semester until the end of the year. This teacher was doing everything that a certified teacher would do - grade papers, go to conferences, after school duties, parent teacher meetings. The district, however, responded by hiring the teacher (who was certified in the area in which they were teaching) for consecutive periods of under 10 days or under thirty days at a time, and claimed they did not have to pay the teacher more than the minimum $85 per day. The district quoted "policies" and "guidelines", gave the principal and teacher the runaround and did everything they could to keep from paying the $150 per day that a certified, long-term substitute should receive. In the mean time, that particular elementary school class has gone through seven substitutes in one year and the students continued suffering academically.
The district frequently hires long term substitutes for 29 days, one day short of the 30 days required to receive the long term pay.
Other substitutes have reported similar issues of questionable hiring practices for certified substitutes.
Anyone who is interested in working in Fort Bend as a long term substitute should read the handbook and then be aware that it may be altered at any time.
Fort Bend ISD in Sugar Land, Texas has a substitute policy states:
In one particular case, the principal of an elementary school in Fort Bend made a verbal agreement with a substitute to work from the beginning of the semester until the end of the year. This teacher was doing everything that a certified teacher would do - grade papers, go to conferences, after school duties, parent teacher meetings. The district, however, responded by hiring the teacher (who was certified in the area in which they were teaching) for consecutive periods of under 10 days or under thirty days at a time, and claimed they did not have to pay the teacher more than the minimum $85 per day. The district quoted "policies" and "guidelines", gave the principal and teacher the runaround and did everything they could to keep from paying the $150 per day that a certified, long-term substitute should receive. In the mean time, that particular elementary school class has gone through seven substitutes in one year and the students continued suffering academically.
The district frequently hires long term substitutes for 29 days, one day short of the 30 days required to receive the long term pay.
Other substitutes have reported similar issues of questionable hiring practices for certified substitutes.
Anyone who is interested in working in Fort Bend as a long term substitute should read the handbook and then be aware that it may be altered at any time.
Fort Bend ISD in Sugar Land, Texas has a substitute policy states:
Certified Long Term
Assignments 30 days or more for the same teacher require that the substitute be certified in the same subject area as the teacher on leave. The pay is $150/day for assignments 30 days or more. If the assignment is less than 30 days, the certified substitute receives $85/day for the first 10 days and $110 for days 11-29.
A Certified Long Term substitute teacher who substitutes for a teacher on leave for at least 30 consecutive days will work on a temporary basis for the duration of the leave as follows:
1. The substitute must be Texas certified in the same subject area as the teacher out on leave and hold a current valid teaching certificate - Probationary, Standard, Provisional and/or Lifetime.
2. Certified Long Term substitute teachers shall not be eligible for employee benefits, such as
hospitalization and life insurance.
3. The salary starts on day one (1) of the 30 consecutive-day assignment. The principal is responsible for submitting a Long-Term Substitute Request Form to Human Resources. However, sometimes a campus may not let us know until after the substitute started the long-term assignment. If a principal asks you to take a long-term assignment and you agree, the HR Coordinator for Absence Management will send you an email indicating the paperwork has been submitted and completed. ...
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