Policy 3C - TREATMENT OF FACULTY/STAFF/VOLUNTEERS

Date Adopted: January 27, 2009

Revised: June 9, 2009, June 25, 2013

Monitoring Date: April

With respect to the treatment of faculty, staff and volunteers, the Superintendent will not cause or allow conditions that are unclear, unfair, unsafe, untimely, undignified or unnecessarily intrusive.

Pertaining to faculty and staff, the Superintendent will not:

1. Allow the district to lack a discernable culture of good will, excellence and community. This to include the promotion of excellence and the mitigation of incompetence in all faculty, staff, and volunteer work.
2. Operate without ensuring faculty and staff are provided with written personnel policies, approved by legal counsel, which clarify personnel rules for faculty and staff, provide for effective handling of grievances, and protect against wrongful conditions.
   a) Faculty and staff may not be uninformed of this policy, and the Superintendent’s interpretations of their protections under this policy.
   b) Allow any employee of the district to go without an annual district authorized evaluation.
3. Retaliate against any faculty or staff member for non-disruptive, internal expression of dissent, or for reporting to management or to the Board of Education (per the grievance process in the personnel manual) acts or omissions by faculty, staff or the Board of Education that the employee believes, in good faith and based on credible information, constitutes a violation of state or federal law or a governing policy of the Board.
   a) Faculty and staff members may not be prevented from grieving to the Board when (i) internal grievance procedures have been exhausted and (ii) the employee alleges that Board policy has been violated.
4. Allow faculty, staff and volunteers to be unprepared to deal with emergency situations.