Subchapter I. General.

§ 38–1901. Sexual discrimination; salary deductions; employment as clerk or librarian.

In assigning salaries to teachers, no discrimination shall be made between male and female teachers employed in the same grade of school and performing a like class of duties; nor shall it be lawful to pay, or authorize or require to be paid, from any of the salaries of such teachers any portion or percentage thereof for the purpose of adding to salaries of higher or lower grades; and no such teacher shall be employed as, or required to discharge the duties of, a clerk or librarian.

(Sept. 1, 1916, 39 Stat. 695, ch. 433, § 1.)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 31-1001.

1973 Ed., § 31-608.

Editor's Notes

For a requirement that no later than the start of Fiscal Year 2022, the District of Columbia Public Schools ("DCPS") shall release publicly the full analysis conducted by American University's School of Education for DCPS of IMPACT, the DCPS evaluation and feedback system for school-based personnel, and the raw, aggregated quantitative data related to the INSIGHT surveys of DC educators' perceptions of the IMPACT evaluation system, see § 4232 of D.C. Law 24-45.

§ 38–1902. Installment payments to certain teachers.

On and after July 1, 1943, the Board of Education is authorized to designate the months in which the 10 salary payments shall be made to teachers assigned to instruction in elementary science and school gardening, and in health, physical education, and playground activities.

§ 38–1903. Teachers in the Americanization schools; custodial staff.

(a) Officers and teachers in the Americanization, evening, and summer schools may also be officers and teachers in the regular day schools.

(b) Members of the custodial staff in the evening, summer, and Americanization schools may also be members of the custodial staff in the day schools.

§ 38–1904. Teaching vacancies.

Teaching vacancies which occur during any school year may be filled by the assignment of teachers of special subjects and teachers not now assigned to classroom instruction, and such teachers are hereby made eligible for such assignment without further examination.

§ 38–1905. Vocational education.

The Board of Education is authorized and empowered to establish occupational schools on the elementary school level for pupils not prepared to pursue vocational courses in the trade or vocational schools and also to carry on trade or vocational courses on the senior high school level or in senior high schools.

§ 38–1906. Classification of research assistants.

Research assistants shall be classified as teachers for payroll purposes and for retirement purposes.

§ 38–1907. Employment of substitutes for engineer, janitor, laborer, fireman, or caretaker; salary deductions.

In the event of the absence of any engineer, assistant engineer, janitor, assistant janitor, laborer, fireman, or caretaker at any time during school sessions the Board of Education is hereby authorized to appoint a substitute, who shall be paid the salary of the position in which employed, and the amount paid to such substitute shall be deducted from the salary of the absent employee.

§ 38–1908. Heads of certain departments; compensation.

From and after 10 days following August 28, 1958, there shall be only one person in charge of the following departments in the public school system of the District of Columbia: Art, business education, English, foreign languages, guidance and placement, history, home economics, industrial arts, mathematics, military science and tactics, music, science, trade and industrial education, and health, physical education, athletics, and safety; except that in the case of persons reassigned pursuant to this section, nothing contained herein shall be construed to decrease the rate of compensation that any such person is receiving on the effective date of this section. If such person is placed in a lower salary class and the present salary of the incumbent falls between 2 step rates for the newly assigned class, he shall receive the higher of such rates. Whenever a department is established hereafter in the public school system of the District of Columbia there shall be but 1 person in charge of such department.

§ 38–1909. Employment of substitutes — Authorized; compensation.

The Board of Education is hereby authorized to employ substitute teachers and attendance officers for service during the absence of any teacher or attendance officer on leave with pay or on leave without pay and to fix the rate of compensation to be paid such substitutes.

§ 38–1910. Employment of substitutes — Retired teachers.

Persons who have retired as teachers under the provisions of subchapter I of Chapter 20 of this title; or subchapter II of Chapter 20 of this title; or subchapter III of Chapter 83 of Title 5, United States Code; may be employed as substitute teachers in the public schools of the District of Columbia when it is not practicable otherwise to secure qualified and competent persons. Any such persons granted temporary employment under authority of this section shall continue to receive their annuities during such employment and no deduction shall be made from the compensation of such persons for retirement benefits. The service rendered by such retired teachers employed as substitute teachers shall not be used to recompute their annuities.