TENURE

"Each teacher shall serve a probationary term of three (3) years to be reckoned from the date of his first appointment in the parish or city in which the teacher is serving his probation. [Any teacher found unsatisfactory by the parish School Board at the expiration of the said probationary term, shall be notified in writing by the Board that he has been discharged or dismissed; in the absence of such notification, such probationary teacher shall automatically become a regular and permanent teacher in the employ of the School Board in the parish or city, as the case may be, in which he has successfully served his three (3) year probationary term…]

The laws of tenure are applicable to teachers, certain principals and assistant principals, supervisors and visiting teachers. Coaches earn tenure as teachers but not in their position as coach. Heads of major departments and directors in positions requiring certification may hold tenure as supervisors. Tenure cannot be transferred from one school system to another. A teacher on tenure, if his or her salary and status as a teacher are not changed, may be transferred from one school to another within the system.

Substitute teachers and those teaching on a Temporary Teaching Certificate cannot acquire tenure. However, a teacher who is teaching on a Temporary Teaching Certificate in a regular position may apply two consecutive years of teaching on a Temporary Teaching certificate toward the three-year probationary term, teach the third "consecutive" year as a regularly certified teacher, and acquire tenure if re-employed.