ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE ...

ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT

BOARD OF EDUCATION Van Henry White, President Cynthia Elliott, Vice President Willa Powell Malik Evans Jose Cruz Mary Adams Elizabeth Hallmark

NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE Steven Carling, Chief Negotiator Meghan Lynch Abate Adele Bovard Christiana Otuwa Everton Sewell

INTERIM SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Linda Cimusz

ROCHESTER TEACHERS ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS Adam Urbanksi, President John Pavone, Vice President Margaret Sergent, Second Vice

President Aimee Rinere, Secretary Paul Hetland, Treasurer

NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE John Pavone, Chief Negotiator Adam Urbanksi Paul Hetland Margaret Sergent Martha Keating Amy Rinere David Wurz

ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT Adam Urbanksi

PREAMBLE

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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RECOGNITION

5

FAIR PRACTICES

6

ACADEMIC FREEDOM

6

PROCEDURES

6

SAVINGS CLAUSE

7

DURATION

8

CONTRACT REPRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION 9

MANAGEMENT RIGHTS

9

ASSOCIATION RIGHTS

9

EDUCATION REFORM

15

EDUCATIONAL POLICY

17

MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION

17

FEDERAL AND OUTSIDE FUNDED PROJECTS 17

GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE

18

WORK YEAR

22

PROFESSIONAL DAY AND RESPONSIBILITIES 23

DISTRICTWIDE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 25

DUTY FREE LUNCH PERIOD

25

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLANNING TIME

25

PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES

26

TEACHER CONFERENCE AND VISITING DAYS 26

TEACHER ASSIGNMENTS

28

SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHER ASSIGNMENTS 30

VACANCIES AND TRANSFERS

31

PROTECTION OF TEACHERS

37

PERSONAL INJURY BENEFITS

39

TEACHING CONDITIONS

41

TEACHER FACILITIES

42

FEE COLLECTION

43

REGULAR TEACHER AS A SUBSTITUTE

43

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

43

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SECTION 32 CLASS SIZE

44

SECTION 33 FLEXIBLE LENGTH OF PUPIL DAY

47

SECTION 34 REPORTS TO PARENTS

49

SECTION 35 PROBATIONARY PERIOD

49

SECTION 36 OBSERVATION AND EVALUATION

49

SECTION 37 DISCIPLINE AND DISCHARGE NON-

TENURED TEACHERS

50

SECTION 38 DISCIPLINE AND DISCHARGE TENURED TEACHERS

ONLY

54

SECTION 39 PROMOTIONAL OPENINGS

56

SECTION 40 GENERAL EMPLOYMENT PROVISIONS

56

SECTION 41 GENERAL ABSENCE PROVISIONS

58

SECTION 42 LEAVES OF ABSENCE

68

SECTION 43 HEALTH INSURANCE CONDITIONS

71

SECTION 44 ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE PLANS

74

SECTION 44A 2009 HEALTH BENEFIT PLAN

75

SECTION 45 TAX SHELTERED ANNUITIES

76

SECTION 46 GENERAL SALARY & ALLOWANCE PROVISIONS 77

SECTION 47 SUPPLEMENTAL EMPLOYMENT

85

SECTION 48 INTRAMURAL CLUB LEADERS, INTERSCHOOL

CONTEST OFFICIALS AND COACHES

86

SECTION 49 TEACHER TRANSCRIPTS

88

SECTION 50 LIVING CONTRACT COMMITTEE

90

SECTION 51 JOB SHARING

93

SECTION 52 CAREER IN TEACHING PLAN

94

SECTION 53 INTERVENTION, REMEDIATION AND

PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT

108

SECTION 54 SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY

110

SECTION 55 GROUP ACCOUNTABILITY

113

SECTION 56 PARENT/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

117

SECTION 57 SHARED ACCOUNTABILITY

118

SECTION 58 REPORT CARD REDESIGN COMMITTEE

120

SECTION 59 TEACHER INCENTIVES

120

SECTION 60 ABSENTEE REDUCTION PLAN

121

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SECTION 61 SECTION 62 SECTION 63 SECTION 64 APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

APPENDIX C

APPENDIX D INDEX

ALTERNATIVE EDUCATIONAL SETTING

122

SCHOOL INSTRUCTORS

123

HOME HOSPITAL TEACHERS

129

ROCHESTER PRESCHOOL-PARENT PROGRAM 140

SALARY SCHEDULE

142

ABOLITION OF POSITIONS

144

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE REVIEW: PROFESSIONAL

EXPECTATIONS FOR TEACHERS

144

SOTA EXTRACURRICULAR STIPENDS

154

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PREAMBLE

1.

The Rochester Teachers Association, the City School District, the Board

of Education and the Superintendent of Schools recognize that they have a

common responsibility beyond their collective bargaining relationship.

2.

The Rochester Teachers Association, the City School District, the Board

of Education and the Superintendent of Schools wish to state their mutual intent to

continue to work toward the achievement of common goals.

All students can learn and we have the responsibility to educate all of them well.

Student achievement must not be predictable by a student's circumstances, background, race or socio-economic status.

3.

The Rochester Teachers Association and the City School District, the

Board of Education and the Superintendent of Schools, believe that fundamental

to educational reform is delineating extended expectations for all professional staff.

These may be thought of as a series of commitments which, taken with the core

propositions of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and the

1989 PART Report, provide a framework for the formulation of criteria for

professional practice.

The parties are dedicated to undertake the purposeful change necessary to restructure schools. A transformed marketplace increasingly demands high skilled, analytical, creative problem solvers able to adapt to the changing requirements of an informational/technological workplace. Only a transformed school system will be able to respond. For that transformation to occur, teachers must aggressively champion every child.

A commitment to change means a willingness to reconsider and alter, as necessary, traditional relationships, organizational structures, and allocations of personnel, resources, time and space to advance student achievement and enhance the life of the school as a center of learning and productivity.

The first professional commitment must be to advance student achievement. Professionals must scrutinize routine patterns of teaching and learning, and confront fundamental issues. This commitment may be manifested by such innovations as ungraded and flexible groupings, the merging of special and regular education classes, interdisciplinary teams, and schedules routinely adjusted to match instructional demands. This commitment is to a new way of thinking, to a continual search for more effective paradigms. The context for decision-making is recommended best practice as documented in the research base.

Teachers must be committed to enhancing the life of the school and

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helping to forge a community of learners based on a system of shared responsibility, values, and mores and to model the behavior of a life-long learner that we expect of our students.

4.

The Rochester Teachers Association, the City School District, the Board

of Education and the Superintendent of Schools have sought for a number of years

to attain mutually satisfactory general objectives and educational goals, as well as

programs reflecting mutual concern in areas such as the reduction of class size,

development of a more effective curriculum, promotion of the use of relevant and

innovative materials, and racial integration among faculties and students.

5.

The Rochester Teachers Association, the City School District, the Board

of Education and the Superintendent of Schools are committed to further advance

their mutual goals by retaining present programs (School-based Planning Teams

and Career in Teaching) and by taking innovative steps toward fulfilling the

educational needs of the children of this school system and the legitimate

expectations of the community.

6.

The Rochester Teachers Association, the City School District, the Board

of Education and the Superintendent of Schools recognize that their major goal is

the effective education of all students in the City School District and support the

general principles articulated in the report of the RTA/RCSD Joint Task Force on

Shared Accountability for Improved Student Learning.

SECTION 1 RECOGNITION

The Board of Education of the City School District of Rochester (hereinafter referred to as the "Board") hereby recognizes the Rochester Teachers Association (hereinafter referred to as the "Association") as the sole and exclusive bargaining representative for a collective bargaining unit consisting of, but not limited to:

Classroom Teachers Contract Substitute Teachers Attendance Teachers Librarians Guidance Counselors Speech and Hearing Teachers School Psychologists School Social Workers Library and Media Specialists Audiologists School Instructors Home Hospital Teachers Rochester Preschool-Parent Program (RPPP)

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Teachers Adult Family Educators Peer Consultants

This recognition shall be applicable for a period not to exceed the expiration date of this Agreement.

SECTION 2 FAIR PRACTICES

The Association agrees to maintain its eligibility to represent all teachers by continuing to admit persons to membership without discrimination on the basis of age, race, creed, color, national origin, gender, marital status, sexual orientation or handicapping conditions and to represent equally all employees without regard to membership or participation or association with the activities of any employee organization.

The Board agrees to the policy of not discriminating against any employee on the basis of age, race, creed, color, national origin, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, handicapping conditions or membership or participation in or association with the activities of any employee organization.

SECTION 3 ACADEMIC FREEDOM

Academic freedom shall be guaranteed to teachers, and no special limitations shall be placed upon study, investigation, presenting and interpreting facts and ideas concerning man, human society, the physical and biological worlds, and other branches of learning except those standards of professional educational responsibility applicable to elementary and secondary education.

SECTION 4 PROCEDURES

1.

Negotiations for Successor Contract

Meetings of the negotiating

committees shall be initiated at the written request of either party in accordance

with Section 6 of this Agreement. All subject matter to be negotiated shall be

submitted by the agreed upon date. The parties shall arrange for a mutually

satisfactory time and place for an initial meeting with a reasonable time thereafter.

Such negotiations may be preceded by preliminary informational meetings

between the Superintendent of Schools (hereinafter referred to as the

"Superintendent", including members of the administrative staff and members of

the Negotiating Committee of the Association.

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2.

Either party may utilize the services of consultants in negotiation

meetings, and call upon competent professional and lay representatives to

consider matters under discussion and to make suggestions.

3.

Ratification

Agreements reached by the negotiating committees

shall be submitted in writing to the Board and the Association for ratification.

4.

Emergencies In emergency situations, deviations shall be permitted

from the terms of this contract, after consultation with the other party.

5.

a. Contract Modifications

This contract may not be modified in

whole or in part by parties except by an instrument in writing duly executed by both

parties and no departure from any provision of this contract by either party or by

members of the negotiating units shall be construed to constitute a continuing

waiver of the right to enforce such provisions.

b. Modifications of the specific provisions of this Agreement affected through the School-based Planning Team (hereinafter referred to a the "SBPT") process shall be subject to procedures approved by the RTA Representative Assembly. Decisions reached in accordance with this provision shall be binding on all unit members at that site.

6.

Rules, Regulations, and Practices

This contract shall

supersede any rules, regulations or practices of the Board which shall be contrary

or inconsistent therewith.

SECTION 5 SAVINGS CLAUSE

This Agreement and all provisions herein are subject to all applicable laws. In the event any provision of this Agreement is held to violate such laws, said provision shall not bind either of the parties but the remainder of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect as if the invalid provision had not been a part of this Agreement.

IT IS AGREED BY AND BETWEEN THE PARTIES THAT ANY PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT REQUIRING LEGISLATIVE ACTION TO PERMIT ITS IMPLEMENTATION BY AMENDMENT OF LAW OR BY PROVIDING THE ADDITIONAL FUNDS THEREFORE, SHALL NOT BECOME EFFECTIVE UNTIL THE APPROPRIATE LEGISLATIVE BODY HAS GIVEN APPROVAL.

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