Employee Contracts, Certificated POLICY NO: 428

Certificated personnel of the district will be employed pursuant to a written contract, on a form approved by the state superintendent of public instruction. The employment contracts will state: (1) the length of time the contract is in force; (2) the total compensation of the contract period; and (3) the employee's full-time equivalent (FTE) status. 

The district will enter into employment contracts with individuals who hold a valid certificate for the position they will be assigned on the date employment commences pursuant to the contract, unless a waiver has been requested and received from the state department of education. 

ANNUAL CONTRACT EMPLOYEES

The district may employ certificated personnel during their first three (3) years of employment in the district pursuant to any of the following contracts: 

Category 1: A limited one-year contract for certificated personnel specifically offered for the duration of the ensuing school year. The district may terminate the contract at the end of the contract year without any additional notice to the employee.

Category 2: A limited contract for certificated personnel in the first or second year of continuous employment with the district. Property rights do not attach to a Category 2 contract. If the board decides not to employ the certificated employee for the ensuing school year, the employee will be provided with a written statement of the reasons for non-reemployment no later than May 25. The employee is not entitled to a review by the board of any reasons or decisions reached not to reemploy the individual.

Category 3: A limited contract for certificated personnel during the third year of continuous employment with the district. On or before May 25, the board will give written notice whether the employee will be reemployed for the ensuing school year. If the employee will not be rehired, the employee will be given the opportunity for an informal review of the board's decision, upon submitting a written request for an informal review. The district will follow the procedure for informal review set forth in the policy entitled Certificated Employees: Informal Review Process found in SECTION 400: PERSONNEL.

RENEWABLE CONTRACT EMPLOYEES

Certificated employees, including administrative employees, who have been employed by this district for three (3) or more full years of continuous service, will have the right to automatic renewal by giving notice, in writing, of acceptance of renewal of the contract. The board will notify each person entitled to a renewable contract not later than the fifteenth (15th) day of May. The notice will be given to the board not later than the first (1st) day of June.

Any contract automatically renewed will be for the same length as the term stated in the current contract and at a salary no lower than that specified therein, to which will be added such increments as may be determined by statutory or regulatory rights of the employee by reason of training, service or performance.

The board has the right to offer a renewable contract increasing the salary of any certificated employee. 

If the board, for reasons other than unsatisfactory service, for the next contract year, decides to change the length of the terms stated in the current contract, to reduce the salary or to not renew the contract of a certificated employee whose contract would otherwise be automatically renewed, a probationary period is not required.

EMPLOYING INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE ATTAINED RENEWABLE CONTRACT STATUS

The board reserves the right to hire a certificated employee who has been on a renewable contract with another Idaho school district, or who has out-of-state experience which would qualify the individual for renewable contract status in Idaho by immediately granting renewable contract status to the individual, or placing the individual on a Category 3 annual contract. If the employee is hired under a Category 3 contract, the length of such a contract may be for one (1), two (2), or three (3) years.


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ADOPTED:  June 18, 1996

AMENDED: November 10, 1997

AMENDED: November 9, 1999

AMENDED:  April 10, 2001 to be effective July 1, 2001

LEGAL REFERENCE: 
Idaho Code Sections

33-513             33-514A          33-515A

33-514             33-515