§ 41401 School Employee Definitions

For the purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Administrative employee” means an employee of a school district, employed in a position requiring certification qualifications, who does not come within the definition of a “pupil services employee” or a “teacher.” (b) “Classified employee” means an employee of a school district, employed in a position not requiring certification qualifications. (c) “Pupil services employee” means an employee of a school district, employed in a position requiring a standard designated services credential, health and development credential, or a librarian credential, who performs direct services to pupils. “Pupil services employee” includes, but is not limited to, in-school librarians, school nurses, assistant in-school librarians, audiovisual personnel, counselors, psychologists, psychometrists, guidance and welfare personnel, attendance personnel, school social workers, and all other certificated personnel performing pupil-personnel, health, or librarian services. (d) (1) “Teacher” means an employee of a school district, employed in a position requiring certification qualifications, whose duties require the employee to provide direct instruction to pupils in the schools of that district for the full time for which the employee is employed. “Teacher” includes, but is not limited to, teachers of special classes, teachers of exceptional children, teachers of pupils with physical disabilities, teachers of minors with intellectual disabilities, substitute teachers, instructional television teachers, specialist mathematics teachers, specialist reading teachers, home and hospital teachers, and learning disability group teachers. Instructional preparation time shall be counted as part of the teacher full-time equivalent, including, but not limited to, mentor teacher or department chairperson time. (2) The Los Angeles Unified School District may also include in the definition of “teacher” any of the following when calculating the ratio of administrative employees to teachers calculated pursuant to this article in the 2022–23 to 2024–25 fiscal years, inclusive: (A) Teachers who spend a majority of their time with pupils as intervention specialists. (B) Teachers who spend a majority of their time on a school campus providing training, coaching, or professional development to other teachers. (Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 908, Sec. 1. (AB 2038) Effective January 1, 2023.)