Human Resources Academy II for Community College Districts

The section further provides that:

A district may lay off an employee required to have such a permit at any time during the school year for lack of work or lack of funds or may provide for his employment for not to exceed 90 days in any one school year on an intermittent basis which shall not be deemed probationary service. The order of layoff shall be determined by length of service. The employee who has served the shortest time shall be laid off first, except that no permanent employee shall be laid off ahead of a probationary employee. A permanent employee who has been laid off shall hold reinstatement rights for a period of 39 months from the date of layoff. . . . . . . Other persons who are employed as probationary employees in positions requiring such permits on or after September 18, 1959, may be dismissed in accordance with the provisions of Section . . . 87740.

From this language one can discern that section 8366 contemplates or permits the following types of employment in CDCs:

 Permanent and probationary academic staff (teachers holding child development permits);  Temporary teachers (teachers hired on an intermittent basis for not more than 90 days in a school year);

 Classified staff (those not requiring a child development permit); and

 Exempt staff (non-academic employees hired as substitutes or interns pursuant to Education Code section 88003).

However, section 8366 sheds little light on what confers permanency on a CDC teacher, or the rights that adhere to probationary or permanent status as a CDC teacher. Read in light of other statutory sections and decisional law, CDC teachers emerge as a sort of hybrid between academic and classified employment. For example, while properly considered “academic” employees, they do not satisfy the definition of “faculty;” and while they may acquire “permanency” under section 8366, they may not acquire “tenure.” Further, while section 8366 confers layoff rights on probationary and permanent CDC teachers, they are the rights of classified staff—not faculty. Yet, probationary CDC teachers “may” (not must) be afforded the dismissal rights of probationary faculty under section 88740. These conundrums are discussed further below.

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