Common use of RECOGNITION AND DEFINITION Clause in Contracts

RECOGNITION AND DEFINITION. The Board recognizes the Association as the sole and exclusive representative for all elementary and secondary classroom teachers who are certificated and regularly employed by the Board: It specifically being the intent of the parties hereto that membership in the Association shall not be a condition of employment, nor used as a point of discrimination in the rights, benefits or obligations under this contract. The Bangor Board of Education shall be referred to hereafter as the Board. The Van Buren County Education Association (Bangor Education Association, M.E.A. and N.E.A.) shall be hereafter referred to as the Association. The term CERTIFICATION as used herein shall mean a teacher who is presently holding a valid certificate issued by the State Board of Education under the requirements of Act 202 of Public Acts of 1903 as amended. Certified teachers for the purpose of this agreement shall be defined to include non- certified, non-endorsed classroom teaching personnel as defined in section 1233b of the public acts of 1990. The term TEACHER as used herein shall include all those teachers employed full time throughout the school year and in addition thereto special education teachers, guidance-counselors, librarians, teachers regularly employed on a part-time basis, pre-school, headstart, probationary teachers as stated below, and specifically excluding from the bargaining unit all others and particularly the supervisory staff consisting of the Superintendent, Principals and Assistant principals, non-supervisory staff consisting of the substitute teachers and non-regularly employed part-time teachers. When used in this Contract, the word DAYS will mean any day Sunday through Saturday (365 days a year). The words SCHOOL DAY mean a day that school is in session, Monday through Friday. A SCHOOL HOLIDAY (Spring Break, Christmas, etc.) does not count as a school day. When school is not in session over the summer, school days reverts to workdays (M-F) until the re-start of school in the fall.

RECOGNITION AND DEFINITION. The Board recognizes the Association as the sole and exclusive representative for all elementary and secondary classroom teachers who are certificated and regularly employed by the Board: It specifically being the intent of the parties hereto that membership in the Association shall not be a condition of employment, nor used as a point of discrimination in the rights, benefits or obligations under this contract. The Bangor Board of Education shall be referred to hereafter as the Board. The Van Buren County Education Association (Bangor Education Association, M.E.A. and N.E.A.) shall be hereafter referred to as the Association. The term CERTIFICATION as used herein shall mean a teacher who is presently holding a valid certificate issued by the State Board of Education under the requirements of Act 202 of Public Acts of 1903 as amended. Certified teachers for the purpose of this agreement shall be defined to include non- non-certified, non-endorsed classroom teaching personnel as defined in section 1233b of the public acts of 1990. The term TEACHER as used herein shall include all those teachers employed full time throughout the school year and in addition thereto special education teachers, guidance-counselors, librarians, teachers regularly employed on a part-time basis, pre-school, headstart, probationary teachers as stated below, and specifically excluding from the bargaining unit all others and particularly the supervisory staff consisting of the Superintendent, Principals and Assistant principals, non-supervisory staff consisting of the substitute teachers and non-regularly employed part-time teachers. When used in this Contract, the word DAYS will mean any day Sunday through Saturday (365 days a year). The words SCHOOL DAY mean a day that school is in session, Monday through Friday. A SCHOOL HOLIDAY (Spring Break, Christmas, etc.) does not count as a school day. When school is not in session over the summer, school days reverts to workdays (M-F) until the re-start of school in the fall.

RECOGNITION AND DEFINITION. The Board recognizes the Association as the sole and exclusive representative for all elementary and secondary classroom teachers who are certificated and regularly employed by the Board: It specifically being the intent of the parties hereto that membership in the Association shall not be a condition of employment, nor used as a point of discrimination in the rights, benefits or obligations under this contract. The Bangor Board of Education shall be referred to hereafter as the Board. The Van Buren County Education Association (Bangor Education Association, M.E.A. and N.E.A.) shall be hereafter referred to as the Association. The term CERTIFICATION as used herein shall mean a teacher who is presently holding a valid certificate issued by the State Board of Education under the requirements of Act 202 of Public Acts of 1903 as amended. Certified teachers for the purpose of this agreement shall be defined to include non- non-certified, non-endorsed classroom teaching personnel as defined in section 1233b of the public acts of 1990. The term TEACHER as used herein shall include all those teachers employed full time throughout the school year and in addition thereto special education teachers, guidance-counselors, librarians, teachers regularly employed on a part-time basis, pre-school, headstart, alternative education, probationary teachers as stated below, and specifically excluding from the bargaining unit all others and particularly the supervisory staff consisting of the Superintendent, Principals and Assistant principals, non-supervisory staff consisting of the substitute teachers and non-regularly employed part-time teachers. When used in this Contract, the word DAYS will mean any day Sunday through Saturday (365 days a year). The words SCHOOL DAY mean a day that school is in session, Monday through Friday. A SCHOOL HOLIDAY (Spring Break, Christmas, etc.) does not count as a school day. When school is not in session over the summer, school days reverts to workdays (M-F) until the re-start of school in the fall.