Common use of School Program Clause in Contracts

School Program. Classroom Teachers and Classroom Assistants shall fill out an annual preference for assignments. These preferences will include pre-school, primary, intermediate, and secondary age levels in the multi handicapped special educational category, although all levels may not be available for any particular year, as well as Transition Coordinator, IEP Review Team member and Resident Educator Summative Assessment (“RESA”) mentor. Staff shall rank their choices by order of most preferred to least preferred. Staff preferences must be submitted by April 1st to the employer and the employer shall notify employees of their tentative assignment and post a listing of such by May 1st of each year. Employees with an interest in being assigned to an off-campus site or being a floater may so indicate on the preference form. Although pre-school Teachers will submit a preference, pre-school Teachers shall maintain assignments on a continuing basis. Preferences will only be used if a vacancy in school- age occurs and a pre-school Teacher wishes to submit his/her name for consideration or for job abolishment or lay-off. For all annual assignments, staff shall be assigned based on classification seniority. For teachers, classification seniority shall be based on total years as a teacher with the agency. The Employer retains the right to determine all individual classroom assignments within each age level and to determine work site assignments for secondary level assignments. Any vacancy that occurs between May 1st and the start of school will be filled according to preferences submitted by staff. The Employer, as needed, shall assign staff who have not submitted a list of preferences. If staff assignments are made other than as provided hereto, the employee shall have the right to challenge the assignment through grievance procedure. If elimination of class, either in pre-school or school-age occurs, as long as the total number of classes (school-age and pre-school) remains the same, it will be considered a lateral transfer not a lay-off. The transfer will be done according to classification seniority, which for Teachers is total number of years as a teacher with the agency.