This series of the board policy manual is devoted to the board’s goals and objectives for employees in the performance of their jobs. Employees provide a variety of important services for the children of the school district community. They may be teaching or assisting in the classroom, working in the office, maintaining the facilities, driving or repairing the school buses, or cooking lunches. Each employee plays a vital role in providing an equal opportunity for a qualify education for students. All employees have an impact on the school environment, including students, parents, and community members, by their dedication to their work and their actions. As role models for the students, employees will promote a cooperative, enthusiastic, and supportive learning environment for the students.
In striving to achieve a quality education program, the board’s goal is to obtain and retain qualified and effective employees. The board will have complete discretion to determine the number, the qualifications, and the duties of the positions and the school district’s standards of acceptable performance. It is the responsibility of the superintendent to make recommendations to the board in these areas prior to board action. The board recognizes its duty to bargain collectively with duly certified collective bargaining units.
Board policies in this series relating to general employees will apply to employees regardless of their position as a licensed employee, classified employee, substitute or administrator. Board policies relating to licensed employees will apply to positions that require a teaching license or administrator’s certificate or other professional license, certificate or endorsement, unless administrative positions are specifically excluded from the policy or a more specific policy is in the 300 series, Administration. Board policies relating to classified employees will apply to positions that do not fall within the definition of licensed employee.
Subject to the financial resources available to the Board of Directors, it shall be the policy of the Board of Directors to recruit and retain the highest caliber of administrators, certified employees, and classified employees. It shall be the policy of the Board of Directors to appoint or dismiss all employees only upon the recommendation of the Superintendent.
(June 9, 1980; April 18, 2011; June 18, 2012; January 19, 2015, June 10, 2019)