This text of Minnesota § 122A.441 (SHORT-CALL EMERGENCY SUBSTITUTE TEACHER PROGRAM) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Minnesota primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
(a)A school district or charter school and applicant may jointly request the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board approve an application for a short-call emergency substitute teaching license. The application information must sufficiently demonstrate the following:
(1)the applicant:
(i)holds a minimum of an associate's degree or equivalent and has or will receive substitute training from the school district or charter school; or
(ii)holds a minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent and has been employed as an education support personnel or paraprofessional within the district or charter school for at least one academic year; and
(2)the school district or charter school has obtained the results of a background check completed in accordance with section123B.03.
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(a) A school district or charter school and applicant may jointly request the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board approve an application for a short-call emergency substitute teaching license. The application information must sufficiently demonstrate the following:
(1) the applicant:
(i) holds a minimum of an associate's degree or equivalent and has or will receive substitute training from the school district or charter school; or
(ii) holds a minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent and has been employed as an education support personnel or paraprofessional within the district or charter school for at least one academic year; and
(2) the school district or charter school has obtained the results of a background check completed in accordance with section123B.03.
(b) The Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board may issue a temporary teaching license under this section pending a background check under section122A.18, subdivision 8, and may immediately suspend or revoke the license upon receiving background check information. An applicant submitting an application for a short-call substitute teaching license in accordance with section122A.18, subdivision 7a, paragraph (a), must not be required to complete a joint application with a district and must not be issued a license pending a background check under section122A.18, subdivision 8.
(c) The board may prioritize short-call emergency substitute teaching license applications to expedite the review process.
(d) A school district or charter school must provide a short-call emergency substitute teacher who receives a short-call emergency substitute teaching license with substitute teacher training. The board may remove a school district or charter school from the short-call emergency substitute teaching program for failure to provide the required training.
(e) A school district or charter school must not require an employee to apply for a short-call emergency substitute teaching license, or retaliate against an employee that does not apply for a short-call emergency substitute teaching license under this section.
(f) A school district or charter school must compensate an employee working as a short-call emergency substitute teacher under this section with the greater of the short-call substitute teacher rate of pay in the district or the employee's regular rate of pay.
(g) A district may employ a short-call emergency substitute teacher for no more than ten consecutive school days in a single assignment. A district solicitation for short-call emergency substitute teacher applicants must disclose the duration of the short-call emergency substitute teacher position.
(h) For each teacher assignment, a district may use a short-call emergency substitute teacher to fill the assignment for no more than ten consecutive school days at a time.
(i) A district may employ a short-call emergency substitute teacher to fill an assignment that a short-call emergency substitute teacher previously filled as long as at least 30 calendar days have passed between the last day of the previous assignment and the first day of a subsequent assignment.