STAFFING, POSTING, REDUCTION IN STAFF, AND RECALL Sample Clauses

STAFFING, POSTING, REDUCTION IN STAFF, AND RECALL. A. Annual Staffing Determinations to be completed each April: Step 1. The Board shall determine the District's tentative staffing needs for the next school year considering available enrollment and financial projections for the ensuing year. The Board shall have sole authority to determine its position on the variables that may exist at that time regarding funding as it may relate to staffing needs. The Administration and LEA shall jointly develop a list of all employees with bargaining unit seniority indicating the seniority status and current position status of each. This list shall include those teachers actually working and all teachers on leave who are scheduled to return for the following year or yet in the current school year. The list shall not include any terminating contract employees or any teachers whose voluntary leaves are not scheduled to terminate during the current school year or at the beginning of the next school year. All teachers with tenure or to be tenured at the close of the year shall be placed before any probationary teacher on this list. Beginning with the last name on this list, the Board shall identify the total number of teachers who must be removed to have the remaining list equal the number of teachers projected to be retained. The teachers identified shall not receive a tentative assignment as referenced in Article 9, B. and shall be added to the Displaced Staff list referenced below in Step 2. Step 2. At least three days prior to the first posting in the spring, the Displaced Staff List shall be prepared by the Administration. The Displaced Staff List shall include staff who: 1) were assigned a position for all or part of the current year which was either never posted or was assigned as a result of another teacher being involuntarily transferred from his or her position to fulfill other provisions of the contract; 2) had their specific positions eliminated due to program and enrollment change or financial reasons; 3) have been added to the Displaced Staff list as referenced above in Step 1; 4) were displaced by building staffing procedures referenced below in Step 4; 5) any staff who volunteer to become Displaced Staff; and 6) any teacher who does not meet the highly qualified standard per NCLB Act in his/her current assignment unless said Act is repealed. Step 3. Teachers in regular positions for the current year shall either be tentatively assigned to positions for the ensuing year or designated as a Displaced Staff in a...