Tag: Associations

• Effective: 6/25/2002
• Revision: 7/10/2007
• Reviewed: 5/28/2013

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1. Board Policy
   The Board recognizes the need for guidelines relating to the absence of education support professionals to engage in activities within employee agent groups. The Administration is directed to administer guidelines for released time for education support professionals for employee agent activities.
2. Administration Policy
   The following policy will be administered for released time for education support professional personnel employee agent group activities:
   1. The president of the employee agent group may be released as outlined in Policy A5B NEG – Released Time for Education Support Professionals Agent Group President.
   2. No employee shall be given approval for release from his/her duties for activities unless the release is requested in advance in writing by the employee agent group and approved in writing by the Superintendent or designee.  All duties performed by employees on paid employee agent leave must directly benefit the District.
   3. No employee other than the employee agent group president (see Policy A5B NEG) involved in Association activities that do not directly benefit the District shall be given approval for released time in excess of five (5) days in any one school year.
   4. The appropriate salary and benefit costs for employees granted released time for activities including those that do not directly benefit the District shall be assessed to the employee agent group.  This will be accomplished through remittance of such fees to the District from the respective employee agent group.
   5. Leave records with associated costs will be on file in the Human Resources Department.

 

2/25/2020: Board of Education approved the term “Education Support Professionals” to replace “Classified” to describe personnel not licensed as educators.

• Effective: 6/19/2001
• Revision: 6/12/2007
• Reviewed: 6/10/2014

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1. Board Directive
   The Board authorizes the release of the education support professionals agent group president as specified below and directs the Administration to allow such absences according to the following provisions.
2. Administrative Policy
   The following administrative policy provisions shall be followed in administering this policy:
   1. The employee agent group president, when serving on a released-time basis, will be released from his/her current assignment.  The employee agent will reimburse the District the total salary and benefits of the president for such released time.
   2. The released time president will declare whether it is his/her intention to return to his/her assignment previously held.  If so, at the completion of his/her term of office, the Association president will be returned to the school building, department or site where previously assigned.
   3. The right of return to the same position will exist for a maximum of two (2) years.  If a request is made for an additional term of office, the president will be guaranteed a return to the District in a position for which he/she is qualified.  The return after three (3) years may not necessarily be in the same building, department, or site which the president left.
   4. If appropriate, the individual(s) replacing the released-time president will be advised that the placement is for a limited term.
   5. Time served as released president will be counted for purposes of experience credit on the District salary schedule.  The released president will accrue all sick leave, personal leave and other leave allowed by District policy.
   6. If the employee agent group president is not serving on a full-time released-time basis, the following provisions will apply:
      1. The employee agent shall be allowed up to twenty-five (25) days per year for its president to perform employee agent business.
      2. The employee agent shall pay appropriate salary and benefit costs for days used up to twenty-five (25).
      3. These twenty-five (25) working days of release time do not include time spent on District-assigned  committee/task force meetings.
      4. For time spent on District-assigned committee/task force meetings, the employee agent group president must present a document to his/her supervisor, signed by the Superintendent, authorizing the released time.
      5. The normal notification procedures used for leave shall be followed.

2/25/2020: Board of Education approved the term “Education Support Professionals” to replace “Classified” to describe personnel not licensed as educators.

• Effective: 5/24/1977
• Revision: 6/8/2021
• Reviewed: 4/26/13

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1. Board Directive
   The Board authorizes the release of the licensed employee agent group president as specified below and directs the Administration to allow such absences according to the following provisions:
2. Administrative Policy
   The following administrative policy provisions shall be followed in administering this policy:
   1. The employee agent group president, when serving on a full-time or half-time basis, will be released from his/her teaching position for the equivalent amount of time.  The employee agent group will reimburse the District the comparable salary and benefits for such released time.
   2. The released-time president will declare by February 15 of the final year of his/her term whether it is his/her intention to return to a full-time teaching assignment.
   3. For a full-time president, the right of return to the same position, school and grade/subject, will exist for a maximum of two (2) years.
      1. If a request is made for additional two-year periods, the president will be guaranteed a return to the District in a position for which he/she is qualified. The assignment will be in the major and/or minor field of certification.
      2. The return after four (4) or more years may not necessarily be in the same building from which the president left.
      3. The right of return will not include reinstatement of extra-curricular or appointed positions previously held.
   4. For a half-time president, the right of return to the same position, school and grade/subject in a full-time position exists as long as the half-time president has remained at the same school and grade/subject he/she held prior to becoming the employee agent group president.
      1. If a half-time president has not remained at the same school and grade/subject he/she held prior to becoming president, the president will be guaranteed a return to the District in a full-time position for which he/she is qualified.
      2. The right to return will not include reinstatement of extracurricular or appointed positions previously held.
      3. An elementary partnership in which a half-time president is working is not considered a job share and cannot be dissolved; however, a new partner can be selected.
   5. The released time employee agent group president cannot be a Reduction in Staff.
   6. The individual(s) replacing the full-time or half-time released president will be advised that they do not have the expectation of continued employment.
      1. The position may be posted and candidates interviewed using standard District procedures.
      2. For an elementary partnership in which a half-time president is working, the president will assist with the selection of the partner.
   7. Time served as released-time employee agent group president will be counted for purposes of experience credit on the District salary schedule.  The released-time president will accrue all annual leave and other benefits allowed by District policy.
   8. If the employee agent group president is not serving on a full-time or half-time basis, the following provisions will apply:
      1. The employee agent group shall be allowed up to twenty-five (25) days per year for its president to perform employee agent group business.
      2. The employee agent shall pay appropriate salary and benefit costs for days used up to twenty-five (25) days.
      3. For continuity of the teaching programs, the same substitute shall be used whenever possible.
      4. The released-time president shall follow notification procedures used for leave and request a substitute if needed.
   9. The released time employee agent group president is subject to all other District policies.