Common use of Credit for Outside Experience Clause in Contracts

Credit for Outside Experience. A new contract teacher in the Ecorse Public Schools System shall be given credit for prior teaching experience and/or military service on the existing teacher salary schedule for up to five years of total service, three years of which may be military service. A. Teaching experience shall be accumulated teaching experience computed from the date the teacher has a valid teaching certificate issued by any state in the United States of America and had a contract with a State Board of Education recognized facility. (Degree plus equivalent of Michigan Provisional or Permanent Certificate excluding special certificate.) Not less than one full year of verified contracted teaching experience is creditable on the Ecorse salary schedule. Partial school year or part-time service is not applicable. 1. Service to the Ecorse Public Schools, regardless of the certificate held, shall be conducted the same as regular service. One year’s credit on the salary schedule is allowed for 180 days of substitute service in the Ecorse Public Schools. The maximum allowance for such substitute teaching is five (5) years. B. Any fully certificated teacher placed in a regular teaching position in which an actual vacancy exists shall receive a probationary contract and shall be placed on the appropriate step of the agreed upon salary schedule, provided that no prior commitment has been made and provided that said teacher is fully qualified to teach in the position in which he/she has been placed. C. Military service shall be computed for continuous active service in the armed forces of the United States of America. For purposes of computations, one-year of military service shall be computed as one school year. Credit for military service shall apply only for persons certified as teachers prior to the performance of the military service.

Credit for Outside Experience. A new contract teacher in the Ecorse Public Schools System shall be given credit for prior teaching experience and/or military service on the existing teacher salary schedule for up to five eight years of total service, three years of which may be military service. A. Teaching experience shall be accumulated teaching experience computed from the date the teacher has a valid teaching certificate issued by any state in the United States of America and had a contract with a State Board of Education recognized facility. (Degree plus equivalent of Michigan Provisional or Permanent Certificate excluding special certificate.) Not less than one full year of verified contracted teaching experience is creditable on the Ecorse salary schedule. Partial school year or part-time service is not applicable. 1. Service to the Ecorse Public Schools, regardless of the certificate held, shall be conducted the same as regular service. One year’s credit on the salary schedule is allowed for 180 days of substitute service in the Ecorse Public Schools. The maximum allowance for such substitute teaching is five (5) years. B. Any fully certificated teacher placed in a regular teaching position in which an actual vacancy exists shall receive a probationary contract and shall be placed on the appropriate step of the agreed upon salary schedule, provided that no prior commitment has been made and provided that said teacher is fully qualified to teach in the position in which he/she has been placed. C. Military service shall be computed for continuous active service in the armed forces of the United States of America. For purposes of computations, one-year of military service shall be computed as one school year. Credit for military service shall apply only for persons certified as teachers prior to the performance of the military service.