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CONTRACTS FOR
TEACHERS
one of the following licenses: professional educator, senior professional
educator, or lead professional educator. If the teacher did not hold a
master’s degree at the time the initial license was issued, the teacher
must have completed 30 semester hours of coursework in the area of
licensure or in an area related to the teaching field since that initial
license was issued. If the teacher held a master’s degree at the time the
initial license was issued, the additional coursework requirement is six
hours of graduate coursework. For those teachers holding a
professional, permanent, or life certificate, the teacher must have
completed at least three years of service in the district and an additional
30 semester hours of coursework in the area of certification or in an area
related to the teaching field. If the teacher had been awarded a
continuing contract elsewhere, the service requirement is reduced to two
years.
The service requirement is three years in the district unless the teacher
had attained continuing contract status elsewhere, in which case the
service requirement is reduced to two years.
For teachers licensed on or after January 1, 2011
, requirements for
the continuing contract include the following:
1) The teacher holds a professional educator, senior professional
educator, or lead professional educator license.
2) The teacher has held an educator license (other than a substitute
teaching license) for at least seven years.
3) For a teacher not holding a master’s degree at the time of initial
licensure, the teacher must have completed 30 semester hours of
coursework in the area of licensure or in an area related to the teaching
field since the initial license was issued.
4) For a teacher holding a master’s degree at the time the initial license
was received, the teacher must have completed six hours of graduate
coursework in the area of licensure or in an area related to teaching
since the initial license was issued.
The above requirements for the continuing contract for those teachers
licensed on or after January 1, 2011 prevail over any collective
bargaining agreement.
It should also be noted that an educator license for substitute teaching
no longer applies. In essence, teaching service under a substitute
license will not count toward the seven years of holding an educator
license. Also, coursework taken while holding only a substitute license
will not count toward the additional training required for a continuing
contract.
CONTRACT
DEADLINES,
TEACHERS’
The deadline for notifying teachers of the nonrenewal of their teaching
contract is June 1, and the deadline for teachers to notify a board that
they are not accepting a contract is June 15. A teacher not returning a
signed contract by June 15 is deemed to have accepted the contract.
These dates prevail over any conflicting provision of a collective
bargaining agreement entered into after March 22, 2013.
3319.11
CONTRACT
SUSPENSION,
ADMINISTRATOR
If the Board has adopted a policy on the suspension of administrative
contracts, it may suspend contracts in accordance with that policy. Ohio
law specifically recognizes “financial conditions” of the district as one of
the authorized reasons for the contract suspensions. The policy (which
must address such issues as reasons for suspension, order of
suspension, and restoration rights) must be developed from input from
the superintendent and all administrators.
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