Instructor Coverage Pay

A "Budgeted Open Position" is when a position is vacant either by a teacher resigning or a new board approved position is created.    In these instances, we are obligated and required to continue to provide instruction for our students.   In a similar fashion, coverage will also be needed when an instructor goes on leave.

In a Cyber environment, obtaining a substitute teacher is not always feasible due to the increased nature of training that cyber teachers require.   Within these situations PALCS may offer the equivalent rate that would be paid to a substitute teacher ($144/day) to the teacher or split across the group of teachers providing this coverage.   Here are a few key points/conditions to this coverage pay situation:

1. Providing coverage pay is not a requirement of PALCS.   Many schools, when substitutes cannot be found, will require teachers to cover classes without compensation.  While this is something PALCS chooses to do in most cases, this offering is not an entitlement nor is PALCS obligated to continue this practice in the future.

2. Coverage pay is a per diem arrangement and the amount a teacher will receive is dependent on how many teachers are covering for a budgeted open position, as well as the % assignment provided by the division Principal.   An example of this assignment may be a group of 4 teachers covering a position and their coverage responsibilities are equivalent.  In this example, the amount each teacher would receive each day is $144 / day sub rate divided by 4 teachers = $36 to each covering teacher per day.  

3. Coverage pay is NOT paid on holidays, PTO days, sick days, or weekends. 

4. When coverage is for a vacancy due to the resignation of a teacher or a newly created position, the coverage pay will start the day after the resigning teachers last day OR when HR is informed that the new position is approved and will continue for 2 weeks past the start date of the newly hired teacher filling the position.  This two week period is to cover the training of the new employee.

5. When coverage pay is for a teacher that is on leave, the coverage pay will start the day the teacher starts their leave and will end on the first day back for the returning teacher.

A "Budgeted Open Position" is when a position is vacant either by a teacher resigning or a new board approved position is created.    In these instances, we are obligated and required to continue to provide instruction for our students.   In a similar fashion, coverage will also be needed when an instructor goes on leave.

In a Cyber environment, obtaining a substitute teacher is not always feasible due to the increased nature of training that cyber teachers require.   Within these situations PALCS may offer the equivalent rate that would be paid to a substitute teacher ($144/day) to the teacher or split across the group of teachers providing this coverage.   Here are a few key points/conditions to this coverage pay situation:

1. Providing coverage pay is not a requirement of PALCS.   Many schools, when substitutes cannot be found, will require teachers to cover classes without compensation.  While this is something PALCS chooses to do in most cases, this offering is not an entitlement nor is PALCS obligated to continue this practice in the future.

2. Coverage pay is a per diem arrangement and the amount a teacher will receive is dependent on how many teachers are covering for a budgeted open position, as well as the % assignment provided by the division Principal.   An example of this assignment may be a group of 4 teachers covering a position and their coverage responsibilities are equivalent.  In this example, the amount each teacher would receive each day is $144 / day sub rate divided by 4 teachers = $36 to each covering teacher per day.  

3. Coverage pay is NOT paid on holidays, PTO days, sick days, or weekends.

4. When coverage is for a vacancy due to the resignation of a teacher or a newly created position, the coverage pay will start the day after the resigning teachers last day OR when HR is informed that the new position is approved and will continue for 2 weeks past the start date of the newly hired teacher filling the position.  This two week period is to cover the training of the new employee.

5. When coverage pay is for a teacher that is on leave, the coverage pay will start the day the teacher starts their leave and will end on the first day back for the returning teacher.