ARTICLE ELEVEN

May 22, 2006 4:59 PM

RATES OF PAY AND WORKING CONDITIONS OF TEACHERS ASSIGNED, EDUCATION ADMINISTRATORS, EDUCATION ANALYSTS, EDUCATION OFFICERS, AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSIGNMENTS AND POSITIONS

I. Teachers Assigned

A. Benefits and Working Conditions

Teachers assigned shall be covered by the provisions of this Agreement except that:

1. A teacher assigned who has been granted additional compensation by Board resolution shall continue to receive such additional compensation while in such assignment in accordance with the terms of the Board resolution.

2. Only the following provisions of Article Five entitled “Licensure, Assignment, and Appointment’’ shall apply: Section E, “Withdrawal of Resignation and Subsequent Reappointment’’; Section F, “Absence Without Notice;’’ and Section G, “Return to Former License of Appointment.’’

3. Only the following provisions of Article Seven entitled “Programs, Assignments and Teaching Conditions in Schools and Programs’’ shall apply: Section I, “Acting Supervisory Positions’’ to be applicable to district offices and central headquarters; Section P, “Regular Part-Time Assignments for Appointed Teachers’’ (to the extent consistent with status as a teacher assigned) and Section S, “Additional Facilities.’’

4. Only the following provisions of Article Eight entitled “Education Reform’’ shall apply: Section H, “Professional Development and Second Differential” Section I, “Reduction of Paperwork’’; Section J, “Evaluation/Observation System;’’ and Section L, “Labor/Management Committee on Long Term Reforms.’’

5. Only Part I of this Article Eleven shall apply.

6. Only the following provisions of Article Seventeen entitled “Retention, Excessing and Layoff’’ shall apply: Section B, “Excessing Rules-Appointed Teachers’’; and Section D, “Layoff".

7. Only the following provision of Article Eighteen entitled "Transfers" shall apply: Section A, "General Tranfers".

8. Only the following provision of Article Twenty-Three entitled “Special Complaints” shall apply: Section H, “Expansion of Special Complaint Procedure to Include Supervisors”.

9. Only the following provision of Article 24 entitled “Professional Conciliation” shall apply: Section B; “District Level.”

10. The following articles of this Agreement shall not apply: Article Six, “Hours’’; Article Nine, “Procedures for Handling Special Behavior Problems’’; Article Twelve, “ Schools and Programs With Modified Work Schedules’’; Article Thirteen, ”Working Conditions of Per Diem Substitutes, Substitute Vocational Assistants, and Teacher’s Assistants’’; Article Fourteen, “Rates of Pay and Working Conditions of Adult Education Teachers’’; Article Fifteen, “Rates of Pay and Working Conditions of Per Session Teachers’’; Article Nineteen C, “Leaves of Absence for Union Officers’’; Article Nineteen J “Information at the School’’; Article Twenty, “Matters Not Covered’’ (third paragraph) and Article Twenty-Four, “Professional Conciliation.’’

B. Assignment as a Teacher Assigned

1. Notice of openings for positions as teachers assigned to district offices or central headquarters shall be posted. The notice shall set forth the job description and qualifications for the positions. Selection for the positions shall be from among qualified applicants who are regularly appointed teachers. Such notices shall be posted in all schools in the district for a position in a district office; or in all schools in the system for a position at central headquarters.

2. Assignment to a district office or central headquarters will be on a voluntary basis for a specified period of time or without limit of time. At the end of the assignment the teacher shall have the right to return to the district from which he/she was assigned. In the case of assignment from a high school or organizational unit the teacher shall have the right to return to his/her former school or to the organizational unit.

3. A teacher assigned who requests a return to his/her former position within one year or, if his/her assignment terminates sooner, at the end of the assignment, shall be returned to his/her former school in accordance with his/her seniority.

4. An appropriately selected teacher assigned who requests an opportunity to return to the position from which he/she was excessed shall be returned to that position if within a year a vacancy should occur in that position. If the teacher is serving in a school when the vacancy occurs, the return to position shall be effectuated at the next reorganization unless the school principal agrees to an earlier release.

5. After at least one year as a teacher assigned, a teacher assigned who returns from any leave of absence with pay or from a leave without pay of one year or less shall be returned to the position from which he/she took the leave, in accordance with his/her seniority in that position, provided he/she meets the qualifications for the position as they then exist.

6. After at least one year as a teacher assigned, a teacher assigned who returns from a leave of absence without pay of more than one year shall be returned to that position from which he/she took the leave provided a vacancy exists. If no vacancy exists the teacher will be placed in excess and Paragraph 4 above shall apply.

C. Hours of Service

The hours of service of a teacher assigned shall be thirty- six and two-thirds hours per week (thirty-seven and one-half hours per week effective February 2006), exclusive of a daily forty-minute (effective February 2006 thirty minute) lunch period. The daily schedule of work shall be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. unless otherwise specified in the assignment.

D. Work Year

1. The work year of a teacher assigned whose work is preponderantly connected with school year instructional programs, their staff and/or students shall be the same work year as a day school teacher and in addition the teacher assigned may be required to serve a week during the Christmas recess, Easter recess or the summer vacation period.

2. The work year for all other teachers assigned shall commence on September 1 of each year and end on the following August 31. During each such work year the teacher assigned shall be granted 31 days vacation to be scheduled during the Christmas recess, Easter recess, summer vacation period and such other periods as can be mutually arranged with the head of the office or other organizational unit.