279.19B - COACHING ENDORSEMENT AND AUTHORIZATION.
279.19B COACHING ENDORSEMENT AND AUTHORIZATION.
1. a. The board of directors of a school district may employ
for head coach of any interscholastic athletic activities or for
assistant coach of any interscholastic athletic activity, an
individual who possesses a coaching authorization issued by the board
of educational examiners or possesses a teaching license with a
coaching endorsement issued pursuant to chapter 272. However, a
board of directors of a school district shall consider applicants
with qualifications described below, in the following order of
priority:
(1) A qualified individual who possesses a valid teaching license
with a proper coaching endorsement.
(2) A qualified individual who possesses a coaching authorization
issued by the board of educational examiners.
b. Qualifications are to be determined by the board of
directors or their designee on a case-by-case basis.
2. An individual who has been issued a coaching authorization or
who possesses a teaching license with a coaching endorsement but is
not issued a teaching contract under section 279.13 and who is
employed by the board of directors of a school district serves at the
pleasure of the board of directors and is not subject to sections
279.13 through 279.19, and 279.27. Subsection 1 of section 279.19A
applies to coaching authorizations.
3. The licensure and coaching authorization requirements of this
section shall not apply to community colleges. An individual
employed as a coach of a community college interscholastic athletic
activity who is not issued a teaching contract under section 279.13
serves at the pleasure of the board of directors of the community
college and is not subject to sections 279.13 through 279.19, and
279.27. Section History: Recent Form
84 Acts, ch 1296, § 2; 85 Acts, ch 49, §1; 88 Acts, ch 1284, § 46;
89 Acts, ch 265, § 35, 42; 93 Acts, ch 66, § 1, 2; 2003 Acts, ch 19,
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Referred to in § 272.15, 273.22, 275.33