Alaska Statutes.
Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums
Chapter 20. Teachers and School Personnel
Section 135. Employment of Retired Teachers Because of Shortages.
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AS 14.20.135. Employment of Retired Teachers Because of Shortages.

(a) A school district or regional educational attendance area that has or anticipates having a shortage of teachers qualified to teach in a particular discipline or specialty may, by resolution, adopt a policy that permits the employment of retired teachers who are qualified to teach in the discipline or specialty in accordance with this section. The policy must describe the circumstances that constitute the shortage. If a shortage of teachers exists as described in the policy, the district or attendance area shall notify the administrator of the teachers' retirement system (AS 14.25) that it is hiring retired teachers under this section.

(b) A teacher who retired under AS 14.25.110 (a) and is subsequently reemployed under this section may, within 30 days after the date of reemployment, elect to continue receiving retirement benefit payments under AS 14.25 during the period of reemployment by filing a waiver of coverage as set out in AS 14.25.043 (b).

(c) A school district or regional educational attendance area may not employ a teacher, principal, or administrator who participated in a retirement incentive program under ch. 26, SLA 1986; ch. 89, SLA 1989; ch. 65, SLA 1996; ch. 4, FSSLA 1996; or ch. 92, SLA 1997, under this section.

(d) A retired teacher employed under this section is not eligible to acquire, maintain, or reacquire tenure under AS 14.20.150 .

(e) If a school district or regional educational attendance area hires a retired teacher under this section and the retired teacher who has been rehired elects to continue receiving benefit payments during the period of reemployment under AS 14.25.043 (b), the employer of a retired teacher who has been rehired under this section shall provide health and medical benefits to the retired teacher who has been rehired. If the retired teacher has been rehired as a full-time teacher, the teacher's employer shall provide the same health and medical benefits to that teacher as the employer provides to other full-time teachers, and the teacher may not receive retirement medical benefits during the period of reemployment.

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