Long Term Intervention Specialist for remainder of school year.
Long Term Substitute Teacher Daily Rate: Substitute Professional Staff Members (PSM) will be paid on the single salary basis of $130.00 per day ($65.00 per half-day) payable within four weeks of the day worked. Following are guidelines and conditions for persons employed as long-term substitute PSM in the same assignment.
1. As defined by the Ohio Department of Education, a “long term” substitute professional staff member assignment is any assignment for the same person in the same position for more than five consecutive days.
2. For the first twenty (20) days in the same assignment, the current substitute PSM daily rate.
3. Beginning with the 21st day in the same assignment - a daily rate commensurate with a
Bachelor’s Degree and no experience on the current PSM salary schedule.
4. From the 1st to the 60th day in the same assignment, substitute PSM will NOT be paid
scheduled days schools are closed such as in-service days, calamity days, etc. No fringe
benefits are accrued.
5. Beginning with the 61st day (within a school year) of continuously working in the same
assignment, benefits will begin to accrue (sick days, personal days, calamity days) and
medical and dental insurance may be purchased at 50% of the Board's cost. If there is a
break in continuous service, these benefits are lost.
6. Substitutes that meet the Affordable Care Act eligibility requirements for health insurance
coverage will be offered the High Deductible Health Insurance Plan available at the time of
Eligibility.
7. Should a substitute PSM create a break in service by missing a day for any reason other
than an acceptable unforeseen emergency as approved by the Superintendent or by using
any accrued leave benefit, then the substitute will break the continuous assignment pattern,
and upon return to duty, will be paid at the current substitute PSM daily rate and begin
the pattern of pay all over again.
8. Substitute PSM reassigned to another position while in a continuous assignment will not
be charged with a break in assignment.
Criminal background clearance will be required for all substitute PSM.
