Common use of Contract Suspensions Clause in Contracts

Contract Suspensions. 1. If reductions are necessary, limited contract teachers shall first be reduced in the affected teaching fields (certification/licensure) utilizing the following order: a. Comparable evaluations. b. When evaluations are comparable, seniority in the District shall prevail, with the contract of the least senior limited contract teacher in the affected teaching field the first to be suspended. 2. Should the necessary reduction of staff required exceed the number of limited contract teachers in the affected field, continuing contract teachers will be reduced in the affected teaching fields (certification/licensure) utilizing the following order: a. Comparable evaluations. b. When evaluations are comparable, seniority in the District shall prevail, with the contract of the least senior continuing contract teacher in the affected teaching field the first to be suspended. 3. When choosing between teachers with comparable evaluations, if the position of a teacher in one “teaching field affected” is eliminated due to reduction in force, and the teacher in that position is also certified/licensed in another teaching field or fields, the teacher may move to the seniority list of any other area of his/her certification/licensure as long as the teacher reduced is displacing a teacher with a comparable evaluation. The least senior teacher in that area of certification/licensure will then be the teacher whose contract is suspended. 4. If the teacher in this second area of certification/licensure is also certified/licensed in another teaching field, that teacher shall then have the same option stated above. The process shall continue until all available bumping rights are exhausted. 5. If the full-time position of a teacher is eliminated due to RIF, and a part-time position in that same teaching field is available, the teacher whose full-time position is eliminated may elect to accept the part-time position. In the event a full-time position subsequently becomes available in that teacher’s area of certification/licensure, the teacher who had accepted the part- time position shall have the right to transfer into the then available full-time position unless there is a more senior teacher, in the affected field, on the recall list so long as the decision to fill the full-time position is made as between teachers with comparable evaluations. Under these circumstances, if there is a more senior teacher on the recall list in the affected field than the part-time teacher, the most senior of the two shall receive the full-time position. The other teacher in that teaching field shall be offered the part-time position, if available. 6. Employees selected for contract suspension shall be placed on a Reduction-in-Force list compiled from the seniority list above. However, limited contract employees whose contracts are non- renewed for performance reasons shall not be placed on the Reduction-in-Force list.

Contract Suspensions. 1. a. If reductions are necessary, limited contract teachers shall first be reduced in the affected teaching fields (certification/licensure) utilizing the following order: a. i. Comparable evaluations. b. ii. When evaluations are comparable, seniority in the District shall prevail, with the contract of the least senior limited contract teacher in the affected teaching field the first to be suspended. 2. b. Should the necessary reduction of staff required exceed the number of limited contract teachers in the affected field, continuing contract teachers will be reduced in the affected teaching fields (certification/licensure) utilizing the following order: a. i. Comparable evaluations. b. ii. When evaluations are comparable, seniority in the District shall prevail, with the contract of the least senior continuing contract teacher in the affected teaching field the first to be suspended. 3. c. When choosing between teachers with comparable evaluations, if the position of a teacher in one “teaching field affected” is eliminated due to reduction in force, and the teacher in that position is also certified/licensed in another teaching field or fields, the teacher may move to the seniority list of any other area of his/her certification/licensure as long as the teacher reduced is displacing a teacher with a comparable evaluation. The least senior teacher in that area of certification/licensure will then be the teacher whose contract is suspended. 4. d. If the teacher in this second area of certification/licensure is also certified/licensed in another teaching field, that teacher shall then have the same option stated above. The process shall continue until all available bumping rights are exhausted. 5. e. If the full-time position of a teacher is eliminated due to RIF, and a part-time position in that same teaching field is available, the teacher whose full-time position is eliminated may elect to accept the part-time position. In the event a full-time position subsequently becomes available in that teacher’s area of certification/licensure, the teacher who had accepted the part- part-time position shall have the right to transfer into the then available full-time position unless there is a more senior teacher, in the affected field, on the recall list so long as the decision to fill the full-time position is made as between teachers with comparable evaluations. Under these circumstances, if there is a more senior teacher on the recall list in the affected field than the part-time teacher, the most senior of the two shall receive the full-time position. The other teacher in that teaching field shall be offered the part-time position, if available. 6. Employees selected for contract suspension shall be placed on a Reduction-in-Force list compiled from the seniority list above. However, limited contract employees whose contracts are non- renewed for performance reasons shall not be placed on the Reduction-in-Force list.