4230 - Assignment and Transfer
Adoption Date: 12/01/2014
Revision History: Reviewed 12/14/2020
A. The district is committed to maintain and continue to annually monitor professional staff assignment, reassignment and transfer so that the average teaching experience and level of education of school faculties in elementary schools with disproportionately high enrollment of black students are comparable on average to the district-wide averages for elementary schools. For the purposes of this policy:
1. “Teaching experience” means the total number of years of teaching both in and outside the District of regular elementary education teachers.
2. “Level of education” means regular education teachers with provisional certifications or with valid Nebraska teaching certificates who have acquired Bachelor’s degrees, or Master’s degrees and higher.
3. “Disproportionately high enrollment of black students’ means that black student enrollment in an elementary school as a percentage of total enrollment exceeds by 15% or more the percentage of black student enrollment in the District at the elementary level as a whole.
4. “Comparable” means within 2 years of the district-wide average for teaching experience at the elementary level; within 6 percentile points of the district-wide average percentile for teachers on a faculty at an elementary school for each of the following:
a. teachers with provisional certification, and
b. teachers with a Master’s degree or higher.
B. Each employee of the Board of Education shall be assigned to a specific position at the direction of the superintendent of schools and may be transferred to any other position as the superintendent may direct.
C. Transfers may be made at the initiative of the superintendent or other administrative officers or at the request of the employee and for any purpose which, in the judgment of the superintendent, is for the best interests of the employee or the school system.
D. All employees shall be notified of their assignments before public announcement has been made.