Credit for Prior Teaching Experience. New teachers may be given full increment credit for previous outside teaching experiences. Teachers shall be given credit for each full teaching year in Rhode Island public schools. A full teaching year shall be no less than one hundred thirty-five (135) paid days in a school year.
Credit for Prior Teaching Experience. A teacher who has retired and who is collecting retirement benefits from the State Teachers Retirement System (Ohio) or a comparable teacher’s retirement system in another State who is hired/rehired by the BOARD after such retirement shall receive credit for prior teaching experience to a maximum of ten (10) years of such teaching experience without regard to the length of time such retired teacher has been retired, notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any provision of the Ohio Revised code which may indicate or require the granting of a different amount of teaching experience credit.
Credit for Prior Teaching Experience. 1. Unit members hired on or before 9/ l/89: Full credit will be given for all service either in or out of the District. For example, a teacher with previous credit of ten (10) years and District credit of sixteen (16) years was placed on step 25, a teacher with twenty-one (21) years in the District was placed on step 21. Unit members hired on or after7/1/90 but before 7/1/94 were given 75% of previous service plus full District service. For example, a unit member with eight (8) years of previous service and who completed five (5) years of District service was placed on step 11. (8x75%=6+5=11) Unit members hired on or after 7/1/94 and before 6/30/01 were given two (2) years credit for each three (3) years of prior service plus full District service. For example, a unit member with seven (7) years of prior service and completed five (5) years of District service was placed on step 10. (7/3x2=4.66=5+5= 10) Effective 7/1/01, all new hires will receive two (2) years credit for each three (3) years of experience, rounded to the nearest whole number. For example, a brand-new hire with no experience starts on step 1, after one year, step 2 and so on. Former district teachers who are re-hired within two years of their last day of employment with the district shall be placed on a step of the salary schedule that they were on in their last year of district employment and then may be advanced one step of the salary schedule if otherwise qualified. Such salary step placement shall be consistent with the conversion feature in the preceding paragraphs of this section B1.
