The Board of Education recognizes the need to procure the services of substitutes in order to continue the operation of the schools as a result of the absence of regular personnel.

The Superintendent shall employ substitutes for assignment as services are required to replace temporarily absent regular staff members and fill new positions. Such assignment of substitutes may be terminated when their services are no longer required.

No member of the immediate family of a Board member or administrator shall be considered eligible for initial hiring as an employee in the Solon school system. Immediate family is meant to include mother, father, sister, brother, daughter, son, husband or wife, and in-laws bearing these relationships.

Relatives of staff members may be employed by the Board, provided the staff member being employed is not placed in a position in which s/he is supervised directly by the relative staff member.

The Board will not initially employ (but may reemploy) the

Substitutes must possess a valid Ohio professional license or substitute license, unless the Superintendent believes the person's application information indicates the person has the qualifications to receive a teacher's license. Such a person may be employed on a conditional basis for a period not to exceed sixty (60) days from the date the person submits a request for a license to the Department of Education through the date the Superintendent receives the person's valid teaching license. If the license is not delivered within the time period, the person's employment is to be terminated.

Substitutes must complete a DMA form with no positive indications that material assistance has been provided to a terrorist organization before working in the District (see Policy 8120).

Substitutes also must pass a background check performed by the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation (see Policy 3121).

Substitutes shall have complied with the tuberculosis examination required by law.

In order to retain well-qualified substitutes for service in this District, the Board will offer competitive compensation at a rate set annually by the Board.

A long-term substitute is one that will be in the same assignment for sixty (60) days or longer. Once a substitute teacher reaches sixty (60) consecutive days in the same assignment, that substitute teacher is entitled to all benefits afforded a regular teacher on staff.

Effective August 1, 2005, substitutes on a long-term assignment that is known to be sixty (60) days or longer at the outset will be paid in accordance with the following schedule:

Daily substitutes shall not earn sick leave nor be paid for days when students are not required to attend school.

R.C. 3307.381(A), 3319.10, 3317.13

Revised 6/13/05
Revised 2/12/07