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.
Properly certified substitutes shall be paid on a daily rate for their teaching services. Such rate shall be set annually by the board at the time salary schedules are considered and established. A substitute who serves in a specific assignment for a period in excess of twenty (20) consecutive teaching days shall be paid at one and a half times the board approved substitute daily rate after the twentieth consecutive day of substituting, and will be retroactive to the first day of the substitute period, but is not eligible for any benefits extended to full time employees.
Date Board Adopted 12/20/2010
Date Board Reviewed 2/14/2022
Legal Reference: Iowa Association of School Boards v. PERB, 400 N.W.2d 571 (Iowa 1987).
Iowa Code §§ 20.1, .4(5), .9; Ch.272 (2013).
281 I.A.C. 12.4.
The building principal or principal’s designee of each building shall serve as the building's truancy officer.
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. The truancy officer will attempt to contact the student's parents when the student is taken into custody.
Date Board Adopted 12/20/2010
Date Board Reviewed 2/14/2022
Legal Reference: Iowa Code §§ 299.10-.11, .15 (2013).
Employees may use school district credit cards and/or procurement cards (p-cards) for the actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of work-related duties. Actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of work-related duties include, but are not limited to travel expenses related to professional development or fulfillment of required job duties, fuel for school district transportation vehicles used for transporting students to and from school and for school-sponsored events, payment of claims related to professional development of the board and employees, and other expenses required by employees and the board in the performance of their duties.
Employees and officers using a school district credit or procurement card must submit a detailed, itemized receipt in addition to a credit or procurement card receipt indicating the date, purpose and nature of the expense for each claim item. Failure to provide a proper receipt will make the employee responsible for expenses incurred. Those expenses are reimbursed to the school district no later than ten working days following use of the school district's credit or procurement card. In exceptional circumstances, the superintendent or board may allow a claim without proper receipt. Written documentation explaining the exceptional circumstances is maintained as part of the school district's record of the claim.
The school district may maintain school district credit or procurement cards for actual and necessary expenses incurred by employees and officers in the performance of their duties.
It is the responsibility of the superintendent to determine whether the school district credit or procurement card use is for appropriate school business. It is the responsibility of the board to determine through the audit and approval process of the board whether the school district credit or procurement card used by the superintendent and the board is for appropriate school business.
The superintendent is responsible for developing administrative regulations regarding actual and necessary expenses and use of a school district credit or procurement card. The administrative regulations will include the appropriate forms to be filed for obtaining a credit or procurement card.
Date Board Adopted: 11/15/2010
Date Board Updated/Reviewed: 2/14/2022
Legal Reference: Iowa Constitution, Art. III, § 31.
Iowa Code §§ 279.8, .29, .30.
281 I.A.C. 12.3(1).