Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-111
Section 11-1108 - Temporary professional employes(a) It shall be the duty of the district superintendent to notify each temporary professional employe, at least twice each year during the period of his or her employment, of the professional quality, professional progress, and rating of his or her services. No temporary professional employe shall be dismissed unless rated unsatisfactory, and notification, in writing, of such unsatisfactory rating shall have been furnished the employe within ten (10) days following the date of such rating. The rating of a temporary professional employe shall be done as provided in section one thousand one hundred twenty-three of this act.(b)(1) A temporary professional employe initially employed by a school district prior to June 30, 1996, whose work has been certified by the district superintendent to the secretary of the school district, during the last four (4) months of the second year of such service, as being satisfactory shall thereafter be a "professional employe" within the meaning of this article.(2) A temporary professional employe initially employed by a school district, on or after June 30, 1996, whose work has been certified by the district superintendent to the secretary of the school district, during the last four (4) months of the third year of such service, as being satisfactory shall thereafter be a "professional employe" within the meaning of this article.(3) The attainment of the status under paragraph (1) or (2) shall be recorded in the records of the board and written notification thereof shall be sent also to the employe. The employe shall then be tendered forthwith a regular contract of employment as provided for professional employes. No professional employe who has attained tenure status in any school district of this Commonwealth shall thereafter be required to serve as a temporary professional employe before being tendered such a contract when employed by any other part of the public school system of the Commonwealth.(c)(1) Any temporary professional employe employed by a school district prior to June 30, 1996, who is not tendered a regular contract of employment at the end of two years of service, rendered as herein provided, shall be given a written statement signed by the president and secretary of the board of school directors and setting forth explicitly the reason for such refusal.(2) Any temporary professional employe employed by a school district after June 30, 1996, who is not tendered a regular contract of employment at the end of three years of service, rendered as herein provided, shall be given a written statement signed by the president and secretary of the board of school directors and setting forth explicitly the reason for such refusal.(d) Temporary professional employes shall for all purposes, except tenure status, be viewed in law as full-time employes, and shall enjoy all the rights and privileges of regular full-time employes.1949, March 10, P.L. 30, art. XI, § 1108. Amended 1951, Aug. 10, P.L. 1157, § 1; 1968, May 14, P.L. 119, No. 62, § 2; 1970, Jan. 14, P.L. (1969) 468, § 38, eff. July 1, 1969; 1996, March 29, P.L. 47, No. 16, § 1, imd. effective.