P.R. Laws tit. 18, § 218
Teachers of all categories, except special teachers, shall be classified by the Department of Education as probation teachers during the first two (2) years of continuous practice. Those teachers who on July 1, 1938, shall have completed two (2) or more years of continuous practice shall be considered as having completed their probation period. Any practicing public school teacher, except special teachers, shall be entitled to be contracted as a permanent teacher after said date if, in the opinion of the Department of Education, it is evident that said teacher has satisfactorily completed his probation period; Provided, That in case of those positions of teachers contracted by the Commonwealth Board for Advanced Skills, Vocational and Technical Education subject to requirements of demand, matriculation, and other requirements specified in the Commonwealth Plan for Vocational Education, they may be eliminated when they do not fill said requirements of demand, matriculation, etc., in which case the teachers who occupy them may remain without a contract but said teachers shall have a preferential right over all other candidates to fill vacancies or new positions in the same specialty or in others for which they are duly prepared, within the three (3) years following the date of the elimination of said positions; Provided, further, That when a teacher contracted to practice as a probation elementary teacher or a probation or permanent elementary teacher, comes to hold a position as high school teacher assigned to a junior high school, said teacher shall keep in the new position the status of probation or permanent teacher, as the case may be; and Provided, That when a teacher of a junior high school, either probationary or permanent, passes to an elementary school, he shall likewise keep in his elementary position the status of probationary or permanent.
History —May 15, 1938, No. 312, p. 553, § 2; May 12, 1944, No. 96, p. 212, § 2.