OTHER STORIES

• Transfers

  The open period for applying to transfer from your current school to a different one begins on April 15.

• Professional activities

  Each spring, following the timetable for indicating program preferences, teachers must select their preferred professional activity from a menu of options.

• Letter in the file

  Like employers in other workplaces, the Department of Education maintains a personnel file for each of its employees.

• Disciplinary action and false accusations

  State education law provides for the discipline or termination of a tenured teacher for specific charges, such as incompetence, insubordination, corporal punishment or sexual misconduct.

• Attendance

  Here's all you'll need to know about your Cumulative Absence Reserve, commonly known as your “sick bank.”

• Protecting yourself from bloodborne diseases

  Accidents, playground scrapes, bloody noses, fights, athletic injuries and violent episodes all have the potential for exposure to a bloodborne pathogen, a microorganism in blood that can cause disease if it enters your bloodstream.

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