Common use of Educational Improvement Leave Clause in Contracts

Educational Improvement Leave. 10.13.1. Full-time unit members who have taught for the District for four (4) full years may apply for an educational improvement leave. Such leaves shall be without pay or other benefits. The District’s Board of Trustees shall not grant educational improvement leaves to more than 2% of its certificated employees during any school year. Such leaves shall be for a period of a quarter, a trimester, a semester, or one (1) full school year. The Board shall grant or deny the request for leave after considering the recommendation of the applicant’s principal and the Superintendent Chief Learning Officer or designee. 10.13.2. Applications must be filed by January 15 for a leave commencing the following school year and 75 calendar days prior to the start of the leave for any educational improvement leave commencing at any time other than the beginning of a school year. The original application will be signed by the immediate supervisor, the unit member and then submitted by the unit member to the Superintendent Chief Learning Officer or designee, by January 15, for final recommendation to the Board of Trustees. Unit members will have until February 19 to retract their request for leave. In the case of the 75 day stipulation, the unit member will have 25 calendar days to retract their request for leave. Request for retraction will be in writing and submitted to the Human Resources Department. 10.13.3. Unit members on an educational improvement leave must give notice of their intent to return as required by the District when the leave was initially granted. 10.13.4. Unit members returning from educational improvement leaves shall not be granted step advancement on the salary schedule for the time they were on leave. 10.13.5. Unit members, upon return from an educational improvement leave, shall be returned to a position as determined by their immediate supervisor. However, immediate supervisors shall consult with unit members before making such determinations. 10.13.6. Educational improvement leaves shall be memorialized in writing and signed by the Superintendent Chief Learning Officer or his/her designee and the unit member.