Jan 26, 2007 3:09 PM
A copy of the current social worker and psychologist assignments will be posted in each superintendency.
During the third week of the month the Chairperson/District Manager will determine which staff members are eligible for temporary redeployment for the following month. The list will be distributed to staff by the first of the month. SBST members may be temporarily redeployed only if doing so would not require that someone else, in the same license/title, be redeployed into that school during the same month. A situation may arise which would necessitate temporarily redeploying an SBST member that would result in a redeployment into the school during the same month. This temporary redeployment may only occur after consultation with the UFT Chapter Leader.
SBST members on the temporary redeployment eligible list who are willing to volunteer for temporary redeployment during the month will notify the Chairperson/District Manager by the fifth day of the month. Those individuals who volunteer shall be the first to be redeployed. The staff on the list who do not volunteer will be redeployed, only as needed, in inverse seniority order. Eligible individuals who were redeployed in the prior month may be redeployed again only after individuals who were not redeployed in the prior month.
Voluntary redeployments count as redeployments and should be recorded on the posted list. All temporary redeployments must be put in writing. This includes voluntary redeployments. The written notice should indicate specific tasks (e.g., specific students to be assessed or conferenced) and must be given to the SBST member a week in advance so that their schedule may be adjusted appropriately, except in extraordinary circumstances, when the notice time may be shortened.
An SBST member may not be redeployed more than three days in any month.
There should be no redeployment of SBST staff into the CSE Review Team. However, if a short-term absence (e.g. illness, jury duty) occurs on a CSE Review Team, the CSE Chairperson must follow procedures for filling the position identical to those utilized in SBST redeployment.
If there is a reasonable expectation that the regularly assigned CSE Review Team member will be absent for more than two months, the position should be posted throughout the superintendency. The posting should clearly state that the duration of the assignment is until the return of the absent member or the end of the current three year term for that position, whichever occurs first.
The Board agrees that a psychologist or social worker will not be required to participate as a subject in a research project without prior consultation with the Chapter.
a. For after school per session, priority of assignment for a position in a superintendency shall be given to staff assigned to the superintendency in seniority order, and then to staff assigned to citywide programs located within the geographic boundaries of the superintendency.
In the case of after-school per session positions in a high school superintendency, priority for after-school per session positions will be given to employees assigned to the high school superintendency, including those assigned to alternative high schools located within the geographic boundaries of the high school superintendency.
b. Applicants for after-school per session positions must be available to work a minimum of two afternoons per week for the duration of the assignment.
c. Employees shall bring work with them from their regular workday in order to complete such work during their per session employment to the extent that time is available.
d. When per session is required to reduce a backlog in assessments, educational planning conferences (EPCs) and CSE reviews will be scheduled during per session when the Superintendent determines it is desirable and feasible to do so in order to maximize the time available during the school day for student evaluations.
e. The Superintendent shall schedule per session work to begin and end on such dates that meet the needs of the district or superintendency, and may reduce or eliminate per session assignments to meet such needs. The employee shall receive five days’ notice of any such reduction or elimination of the position, which shall be made in reverse seniority order. If the position is restored during the per session cycle, the employees shall be returned to the per session activity in seniority order without the need for posting. Where priority for selection was made on a geographic basis, the same geographic basis shall be used in retrenchment and restoration of positions. The Superintendent may redeploy a per session employee within the superintendency, to meet the needs of the activity.
f. For summer per session, staff who completed the equivalent of one month (20 days) of satisfactory service in both the Summer 1997 and Summer 1998 School Based Support Team/Committee on Special Education (SBST/CSE) Activity, shall have the opportunity to claim retention to future SBST/CSE Summer Activities in the superintendency where service was rendered. If the equivalent of one month of summer service was rendered in different superintendencies each summer, then the member shall have the opportunity to claim retention to any one of these superintendencies. The service requirement to earn retention rights shall not be deemed interrupted by an approved leave of absence, sabbatical or by other mitigating circumstances acceptable to the Board. Article 15C2 of the collective bargaining agreement covering Teachers shall apply to the retention rights of these staff.
g. After the awarding of summer positions based upon retention, priority for summer positions in the superintendency shall be given to staff assigned to the superintendency in seniority order and then to staff from other superintendencies in seniority order.
h. For weeked per session, staff who completed a minimum of ten (10) days of weekend service in the school year 1997-98 SBST/CSE Per Session Activity shall have the opportunity to claim retention to the superintendency in which service was rendered. After the awarding of weekend positions based upon retention, priority for weekend positions in the superintendency shall be given to staff assigned to the superintendency in seniority order and then to staff from other superintendencies in seniority order.
It is understood that a member may claim retention to the superintendency if the minimum of ten days of weekend per session service was rendered in one superintendency. It is further understood that if the minimum of ten days of weekend per session service during the 1997-98 school-year was rendered in different superintendencies the member may claim retention to a superintendency (i.e., any one of these superintendencies) by the agreed upon date.
Staff must claim their retention rights to the superintendency by utilizing Form OP-175. A claim for retention for this staff must be received by an agreed upon date.
There will be no awarding of retention rights except as provided above, based on service rendered in 1997 and/or 1998 and claimed by the agreed upon date.
Upon request, a psychologist or social worker serving in a split assignment shall be reassigned in accordance with his/her layoff seniority to a full position in the district or superintendency or program before a newly hired employee. Such reassignment shall be effectuated at the next reorganization.
School psychologists and school social workers will have the right to return within one year from leave to their assignment within the district, in accordance with their seniority.