2025 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 09 - Education and Culture
Chapter 342 - Teachers and Other School Personnel
Section 342.626 - Work hour requirements for classified school employees who provide significant special education support.
(1) As used in this section:
(a) "Classified school employee" includes all employees of a school district except those for whom a teaching or administrative license is required as a basis for employment in a school district.
(b) "Individualized education program" has the meaning given that term in ORS 343.035.
(c) "School district" means:
(A) A common school district or a union high school district.
(B) An education service district.
(2) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, a school district that employs classified school employees who provide significant special education support, as determined under subsection (4) of this section, may not establish, for any purpose, a policy that requires the work day hours of a classified school employee to be fewer than five hours per work day on regular school days when schools are normally in operation and students are present.
(3)(a) A school district may reduce the work day hours of a classified school employee to fewer than five hours per work day if the reduction in hours is at the written request of the employee.
(b) A school district may not coerce or require, as a condition of employment or continuation of employment, a classified school employee to make a request for a reduction in work day hours.
(4) For the purpose of this section, a classified school employee provides significant special education support if 75 percent or more of the employee’s student caseload consists of students who have an individualized education program. [2023 c.592 §6]
Note: 342.626 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 342 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
