27-3. Using Appointed Teachers or TATs to Provide Class Coverage

The BOARD agrees, in principle, that no teacher shall be requested to assume responsibility for students from classrooms of absent teachers when substitutes are unavailable. In elementary schools, middle schools, education and CTE guidance centers and high schools, at no time should special education classes nor special programs, such as library, physical education, shop, TESL, bilingual or special reading classes, be discontinued so that substitute service may be performed by teachers of these programs, except in the case of emergencies, in which case the above teachers shall be subject to last call, after available non-teaching certificated personnel have been assigned. Special education teachers should not be assigned to cover classes in the absence of a substitute teacher.