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ARTICLE XVI
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
16.1 The provisions of this Article shall apply to unit members assigned to ECP permit teachers, inclusion ECP permit teachers, children's center permit teachers, school age/child care/latch key permit teachers.
16.1.1 Children's Services unit member's hours shall vary between four (4) and eight (8) hours depending upon the number of students enrolled.
16.1.2 Children's Services unit members shall have an uninterrupted lunch break of thirty (30) minutes. A physical relief break shall be provided within each three (3) hour block of time.
16.1.3 The District will make a good faith effort to minimize the use of split shifts. It is understood that the minimizing of split shifts is not to involve additional costs or unnecessarily reduce the number of hours of Children's Centers unit members.
16.1.4 Whenever it is necessary to reduce the number of hours of Children's Services unit members, those unit members assigned the greatest number of hours per day and with the least number of years of teaching within the District shall have their hours reduced before those with a greater number of years of teaching with the District.
16.1.5 Class size as it relates to Children's Services shall be in accordance with guidelines established by the State, Federal and County regulations.
16.1.6 A full time assignment for Children's Services unit members is eight (8) hours. Part time unit members shall be paid a pro-ration of a full time salary in the same ratio as the hours in their assignment bears to eight (8).
16.1.7 Full time Children's Services unit members shall accumulate sick leave on the basis of one day per month. Children's Services unit members assigned less than full time accumulate sick leave on a prorata basis.
16.1.8 The Children's Centers and Latch Key shall be open for the number of days required by the State (approximately 247 days, although this figure will vary from year to year). The centers and sites shall be closed for the following twelve (12) holiday observances:
Independence Day Christmas Day Labor Day New Year’s Day Admission Day Martin Luther King Jr. Day Veterans Day Lincoln’s Day Thanksgiving Day President’s Day and the day following Memorial Day
16.1.8.1 Additional holidays may be observed in any given year in order to make the unit member work year conform to the number of days needed for the District to be in compliance with the State requirement; the preferences for observing additional holidays shall be the days adjacent to a recess period, or holiday observance.
16.1.8.2 If the State Children Center requirement in any year is less than the District’s 12-month employee work calendar, Children Center personnel shall work the same number of days as other 12-month employees in order to receive a full salary. The Children Center employee will report for duty on the day that the Children Centers are closed in order to meet the 12-month employee work calendar requirement, unless the District and employee mutually agree to a vacation day instead.
16.1.9 The calendar for the Children's Services twelve (12) month program will reflect the state-funded minimum number of days of operation for that year. If additional days of operation are scheduled, the following procedure shall apply:
16.1.9.1 The District shall identify tentative assignment needs as early as possible.
16.1.9.2 The District shall solicit volunteers to fill assignments no later than twenty (20) work days prior to the effective date of the assignment.
16.1.9.3 Among volunteers who are age-group qualified (preschool/school age) and with satisfactory evaluations for the past three (3) years (or for the length of District service if employed for less than 3 years), the employee with the greatest District seniority shall be selected.
16.1.9.4 Employees selected for the assignments shall be notified no later than ten (10) working days prior to the effective date of the assignment.
16.1.9.5 Payment for such additional day(s) shall be at the unit member's daily rate of pay.
16.1.10 Vacation days for Children's Services unit members shall be taken at times mutually agreeable to the District and the unit member, depending upon criteria, and the District will attempt to honor a unit member's request for fifteen (15) consecutive days of vacation.
16.1.11 A teacher shall have access to information in a student's school records regarding specific behavior or medical conditions that may adversely affect a student's development; information shall be kept in strict confidence by the teacher.
16.1.12 When it becomes necessary to reassign a full time Children's Services unit member from one site to another site, then the full time unit member with the least number of years in the District at that site shall be reassigned prior to those with a greater number of years of service to the District at that site.
16.1.13 The salary schedule for Children's Services unit members is attached as Appendix A.
16.1.13.1 Effective July 1, 1994, a designated Lead Teacher at a latch key program site shall be paid a stipend of one percent (1%) above their placement on the basic salary schedule. Head Teachers in the child care program shall be paid a stipend of three percent (3%) above their placement on the basic salary schedule.
16.1.13.2
Effective July 1, 1995, if a teacher in the District's Children's Services
program is hired as a credentialed teacher in the District's ECP-12 program,
he/she shall be allowed credit on the certificated salary schedule at the rate
of one (1) year of credit for each two (2) years of full Children Services
program experience in the District if the experience was rendered prior to
obtaining a Bachelor's Degree;
16.1.13.3 Effective July 1, 1995, a newly hired unit member who has previously worked on an hourly and/or substitute basis in the District's Children's Services program and who is subsequently hired as a regular Children's Services program teacher shall receive one (1) year of credit on the salary schedule, if the following conditions have been met:
16.1.13.3.1 Unit members assigned on a ten (10) month basis shall have worked 135 days for at least six (6) hours per day; or
16.1.13.3.2 Unit members assigned on a twelve (12) month basis shall have worked 185 days for at least six (6) hours per day.
16.2 Child Development
The District and the Association will establish a subcommittee to the bargaining team that will review and recommend provisions regarding working conditions that are unique to Child Development certificated staff. The subcommittee will examine such issues as work year, vacation, the different categories of employees and the bargaining unit to which they belong, titles, supervision and evaluation. The subcommittee will be composed of two Child Development teachers and a member of the Association bargaining team, plus up to three members chosen by the District. The subcommittee will make its recommendation to the parties for possible inclusion into the parties’ Agreement. Except as set forth above, the subcommittee will determine its operating procedures.
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