The School Board recognizes that it is vital to the successful operation of the District that positions created by the Board be filled with qualified and competent staff.

The Board shall approve the employment and establish the term of employment for each educational support personnel member employed by this District.

All educational support personnel employees not covered by the terms of a negotiated agreement are "at-will" employees. Their employment can be terminated with or without cause at any time. No other representative of the District has the authority to enter into any agreement for employment for any specified period of time with a educational support personnel employee.

Individuals employed in the following categories shall be considered members of the educational support personnel:

All applications for employment shall be referred to the Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources.

Relatives of Board members may be employed by the Board, provided the member of the Board involved does not participate in any way in the discussion or vote on the employment.

Should the Board choose to employ a family member as herein defined, both the family member and the Board member must file a conflict of interest statement.

Any educational support personnel member's intentional misstatement of fact material to his/her qualifications for employment or the determination of salary shall be considered by this Board to constitute grounds for dismissal.

Relatives of staff members may be employed by the Board, provided the staff member being employed is not placed in a position in which s/he would be supervised by the relative staff member.

When required, no candidate for employment as an educational support personnel member shall receive recommendation for such employment without having proffered visual evidence of his/her certification or pending application for certification.

The Superintendent shall prepare administrative guidelines for the recruitment and selection of all educational support personnel.

If a staff member is a volunteer firefighter and has notified the School District in writing that s/he is a volunteer firefighter, the School District may not discipline the staff member for being absent from duty by reason of responding to a fire or emergency call that was received prior to the time the staff member was to report to duty or for leaving his/her duty station to respond to a fire or an emergency call if s/he has authorization from his/her supervisor to leave duty in response to a call received after s/he has reported to work.

The School District may require that the staff member present a written statement from the officer in charge of the volunteer fire department at the time of the absence indicating the staff member was engaged in an emergency call at the time of his/her absence.

Paraprofessionals employed prior to January 8, 2002 are to meet "high qualified" requirements by December 21, 2005. Paraprofessionals hired after January 8, 2002 are to meet "highly qualified" requirements by May 26, 2005.

To be "highly qualified" you must complete the following:

OR

OR

Paraprofessional duties - Paraprofessionals working for a Title I supported program may be assigned to:

I.C. 20-26-5-4, 20-26-9-12, 35-44-1-3, 36-8-12-10.5
20 U.S.C. 6319