P.R. Laws tit. 18, § 214
Every public school teacher in active service through an appointment made in accordance with the school law, the regulations of the Department of Education and the regulations of the Commonwealth Board for Advanced Skills, Vocational and Technical Education, who shall have practiced as such in a school of any category during the probation period hereinafter specified, shall be entitled to be contracted as a permanent teacher in the category in which he may be practicing his profession at the expiration of the said probation period, without any further proof of classification or professional ability than the holding of a regular license of the same category of the position held by the teacher and to have, in the opinion of the Department, performed satisfactory work. For the purposes of §§ 214—218 of this title, no consideration shall be given to the time such teachers may have been practicing as temporary teachers. Such teachers shall be entitled to be contracted as permanent teachers in the municipality where they may be teaching at the expiration of the probation period. The time worked by teachers with regular certificates as substitutes and who have performed satisfactory work in positions of the same category shall be confirmed as probationary period. The equivalence of the two (2) years of probationary period shall comprise the work performed with a substitute or probationary contract during two (2) consecutive years. Such teachers shall be entitled to be contracted as probationary or permanent teachers in the municipality where they may be teaching when entitled to a regular position.
History —May 15, 1938, No. 312, p. 553, § 1; May 12, 1944, No. 96, p. 212, § 1; May 30, 1970, No. 77, p. 193; Mar. 19, 1971, No. 7, p. 15.