Common use of Teaching Staff Clause in Contracts

Teaching Staff. ‌ A. The Academy will select its teaching staff from qualified teacher applicants. Application to the Academy will be voluntary and subject to the release from the applicant's employing school district. The Academy will attempt to staff with teachers from the Participating Districts in approximate relationship to each Participating District's pupil count. If a position which needs to be staffed cannot be filled in this manner, the Academy will request that the Participating District with the then lowest ratio of assigned staff to the Participating District's Consortium shares hire a qualified candidate to be assigned to the Academy. This process will be followed whenever the need to fill an Academy staff position cannot be accomplished from existing staff of a Participating District while still keeping the Academy staff balanced according to the approximate relationship of each Participating District's pupil count to the Academy's total teaching staff. The Fiscal Agents at each campus are authorized to administer this provision and to make such adjustments as are necessary to staff the Academy. B. At the conclusion of each school year, teachers assigned to the Academy will, upon written request, be permitted to return to their home district in accordance with the letters of agreement referred to herein. The Academy's administrator, in conjunction with the Fiscal Agents, may also return a teacher to that teacher's home district at the conclusion of a school year, subject to whatever limitations may apply by operation of the Participating District's collective bargaining agreement applicable to the teacher. If a limitation exists under a Participating District's collective bargaining agreement which temporarily prevents the return of a teacher from the Academy to a home district, the Participating District shall make every effort to accommodate that teacher's return to the home district as soon as possible. C. Teachers assigned to the Academy will at all times remain exclusively employees of their home district. They will also remain members of their Participating District bargaining unit. As home district employees, they will be assigned by their home district to perform services for the Academy at the Academy site. As the only employment relationship of each Academy teacher is with his/her home participating district, the responsibility for all payment of wages and other benefits and compensation to each teacher, including the responsibility for satisfaction of any legal obligation to maintain insurance or other contributions required by law, including, but not limited to, insurance required under the Worker's Disability Compensation Act, insurance or reimbursement required under the Michigan Employment Security Act, and retirement contributions mandated pursuant to the provisions of the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement Act, shall remain that of each teacher's home district. Any tenure and other employment rights will be exclusively between each teacher and his/her home district. However, because of the nature of the assignment of each teacher to the Academy, the right to evaluate, manage, supervise, and otherwise regulate and control the activities and performance of each teacher and the manner in which the work of each teacher is performed will be delegated by each home district to the Fiscal Agents and Academy administrator. D. The responsibility for formation, regulation, modification, and/or termination of all contractual relationships, whether through individual employment agreement(s) or collective bargaining agreement(s), in any way pertaining to a teacher assigned by a home district to the Academy remains with the home district. Any collective bargaining contract provisions between a home district and the association representing home district teachers will be applicable to a home district teacher assigned to the Academy except where specific changes have been negotiated between the home district and the home district bargaining unit association and agreed upon in letters of agreement between the affected parties. These letters of agreement, attached hereto as Exhibit B, will address differences in wages, hours, and working conditions inherent in the operation of the Academy program. Failure to reach a letter of agreement between the home district and the association shall not preclude the enrollment of the home district's students in the Academy. A home district is not required, as a condition to entering into this Agreement or enrolling its students in the Academy, to approve a letter of agreement. If a home district and/or its bargaining unit does not approve the negotiated letter of understanding in place for the Academy with such terms and conditions as outlined herein, it shall not assign teaching staff to the Academy pursuant to Section 1 herein.

Teaching Staff. ‌ A. The Academy will select its teaching staff from qualified teacher applicants. Application to the Academy will be voluntary and subject to the release from the applicant's employing school district. The Academy will attempt to staff with teachers from the Participating Districts in approximate relationship to each Participating District's pupil countConsortium shares. If a position which needs to be staffed cannot be filled in this manner, the Academy will request that the Participating District with the then lowest ratio of assigned staff to the Participating District's Consortium shares hire a qualified candidate to be assigned to the Academy. This process will be followed whenever the need to fill an Academy staff position cannot be accomplished from existing staff of a Participating District while still keeping the Academy staff balanced according to the approximate relationship of each Participating District's pupil count Consortium shares to the Academy's total teaching staff. The Fiscal Agents at each campus are Joint Steering Committee is authorized to administer (recommend?) this provision and to make (recommend?) such adjustments as are necessary to staff the Academy. (I think that this is OK as is. This is an administrative function). B. At the conclusion of each school year, teachers assigned to the Academy will, upon written request, be permitted to return to their home district in accordance with the letters of agreement referred to herein. The Academy's administrator, in conjunction with the Fiscal AgentsJoint Steering Committee, may (in conjunction with the teacher’s home district?) (I like your suggestion.) ▇▇▇ also return a teacher to that teacher's home district at the conclusion of a school year, subject to whatever limitations may apply by operation of the Participating District's collective bargaining agreement applicable to the teacher. If a limitation exists under a Participating District's collective bargaining agreement which temporarily prevents the return of a teacher from the Academy to a home district, the Participating District shall make every effort to accommodate that teacher's return to the home district as soon as possible. C. Teachers assigned to the Academy will at all times remain exclusively employees of their home district. They will also remain members of their Participating District bargaining unit. As home district employees, they will be assigned by their home district to perform services for the Academy at the Academy site. As the only employment relationship of each Academy teacher is with his/her home participating district, the responsibility for all payment of wages and other benefits and compensation to each teacher, including the responsibility for satisfaction of any legal obligation to maintain insurance or other contributions required by law, including, but not limited to, insurance required under the Worker's Disability Compensation Act, insurance or reimbursement required under the Michigan Employment Security Act, and retirement contributions mandated pursuant to the provisions of the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement Act, shall remain that of each teacher's home district. Any tenure and other employment rights will be exclusively between each teacher and his/her home district. However, because of the nature of the assignment of each teacher to the Academy, the right to evaluate, manage, supervise, and otherwise regulate and control the activities and performance of each teacher and the manner in which the work of each teacher is performed will be delegated by each home district to the Fiscal Agents Joint Steering Committee and Academy administrator. D. The responsibility for formation, regulation, modification, and/or termination of all contractual relationships, whether through individual employment agreement(s) or collective bargaining agreement(s), in any way pertaining to a teacher assigned by a home district to the Academy remains with the home district. Any collective bargaining contract provisions between a home district and the association representing home district teachers will be applicable to a home district teacher assigned to the Academy except where specific changes have been negotiated between the home district and the home district bargaining unit association and agreed upon in letters of agreement between the affected parties. These letters of agreement, attached hereto as Exhibit B, will address differences in wages, hours, and working conditions inherent in the operation of the Academy program. Failure to reach a letter of agreement between the home district and the association shall not preclude the enrollment of the home district's students in the Academy. A home district is not required, as a condition to entering into this Agreement or enrolling its students in the Academy, to approve a letter of agreement. If a home district and/or its bargaining unit does not approve the negotiated letter of understanding in place for the Academy with such terms and conditions as outlined herein, it shall not assign teaching staff to the Academy pursuant to Section 1 herein.

Teaching Staff. ‌ A. The Academy will select its teaching staff from qualified teacher applicants. Application to the Academy will be voluntary and subject to the release from the applicant's ’s employing school district. The Academy will attempt to staff with teachers from the Participating Districts in approximate relationship to each Participating District's ’s pupil count. If a position which needs to be staffed cannot be filled in this manner, the Academy will request that the Participating District with the then lowest ratio of assigned staff to the Participating District's ’s Consortium shares hire a qualified candidate to be assigned to the Academy. This process will be followed whenever the need to fill an Academy staff position cannot be accomplished from existing staff of a Participating District while still keeping the Academy staff balanced according to the approximate relationship of each Participating District's ’s pupil count to the Academy's ’s total teaching staff. The Fiscal Agents at each campus are authorized to administer this provision and to make such adjustments as are necessary to staff the Academy. B. At the conclusion of each school year, teachers assigned to the Academy will, upon written request, be permitted to return to their home district in accordance with the letters of agreement referred to herein. The Academy's ’s administrator, in conjunction with the Fiscal Agents, may also return a teacher to that teacher's ’s home district at the conclusion of a school year, subject to whatever limitations may apply by operation of the Participating District's ’s collective bargaining agreement applicable to the teacher. If a limitation exists under a Participating District's ’s collective bargaining agreement which temporarily prevents the return of a teacher from the Academy to a home district, the Participating District shall make every effort to accommodate that teacher's ’s return to the home district as soon as possible. C. Teachers assigned to the Academy will at all times remain exclusively employees of their home district. They will also remain members of their Participating District bargaining unit. As home district employees, they will be assigned by their home district to perform services for the Academy at the Academy site. As the only employment relationship of each Academy teacher is with his/her home participating district, the responsibility for all payment of wages and other benefits and compensation to each teacher, including the responsibility for satisfaction of any legal obligation to maintain insurance or other contributions required by law, including, but not limited to, insurance required under the Worker's ’s Disability Compensation Act, insurance or reimbursement required under the Michigan Employment Security Act, and retirement contributions mandated pursuant to the provisions of the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement Act, shall remain that of each teacher's ’s home district. Any tenure and other employment rights will be exclusively between each teacher and his/her home district. However, because of the nature of the assignment of each teacher to the Academy, the right to evaluate, manage, supervise, and otherwise regulate and control the activities and performance of each teacher and the manner in which the work of each teacher is performed will be delegated by each home district to the Fiscal Agents and Academy administrator. D. The responsibility for formation, regulation, modification, and/or termination of all contractual relationships, whether through individual employment agreement(s) or collective bargaining agreement(s), in any way pertaining to a teacher assigned by a home district to the Academy remains with the home district. Any collective bargaining contract provisions between a home district and the association representing home district teachers will be applicable to a home district teacher assigned to the Academy except where specific changes have been negotiated between the home district and the home district bargaining unit association and agreed upon in letters of agreement between the affected parties. These letters of agreement, attached hereto as Exhibit B, will address differences in wages, hours, and working conditions inherent in the operation of the Academy program. Failure to reach a letter of agreement between the home district and the association shall not preclude the enrollment of the home district's ’s students in the Academy. A home district is not required, as a condition to entering into this Agreement or enrolling its students in the Academy, to approve a letter of agreement. If a home district and/or its bargaining unit does not approve the negotiated letter of understanding in place for the Academy with such terms and conditions as outlined herein, it shall not assign teaching staff to the Academy pursuant to Section 1 herein.