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
SECTION 1 SECTION 2 SECTION 3 SECTION 4 SECTION 5 SECTION 6 SECTION 7 SECTION 8 SECTION 9 SECTION 10 SECTION 11 SECTION 12 SECTION 13 SECTION 14 SECTION 15 SECTION 16 SECTION 17 SECTION 18 SECTION 19 SECTION 20 SECTION 21 SECTION 22 SECTION 23 SECTION 24 SECTION 25 SECTION 26 SECTION 27 SECTION 28 SECTION 29 SECTION 30 SECTION 31
TABLE OF CONTENTS
4
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
155
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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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