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PSS: Some non-HQTs still being hired as substitutes
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Posted on Mar 23 2012
By Moneth Deposa
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The CNMI Public School System continues to employ non-highly qualified teachers as substitutes-both for short- and long-term periods.
Education Commissioner Rita A. Sablan told Saipan Tribune on Wednesday that the system currently employs substitutes who are paid on an on-call basis.
“Some substitutes are serving in short-term and some are long-term, depending on the needs of the school,” she said.
Short-term substitutes usually work for three to 10 days only while long-term hires sometimes work for four or five months. The minimum requirement for substitute teachers is a bachelor or associate degree.
Sablan could not immediately say the exact number of substitutes currently employed by PSS, but assured that principals are keeping track of them and their performance.
Saipan Tribune learned that PSS pays substitutes with bachelor degrees $100 daily, while those with associate degrees get $60 a day. HQTs who serve as substitutes will get $150 daily.
Hopwood Junior High principal Jonas Barcinas said that seven of his 45 teachers are substitutes, many of them hired at the beginning of the school year and are expected to teach until the end of the school year.
At Kagman High School, principal Alfred Ada said that two of his 26 teachers are substitutes and have been working since the start of the school year.
