FILE:  GBL

Cf:  GBJ

TENURE

CERTIFICATED PERSONNEL

The Ascension Parish School Board shall grant tenure to teachers who have successfully served a probationary term of three (3) years from the date of their appointment within the school district.

The laws of tenure are applicable to teachers, principals, assistant principals, supervisors and other appropriate personnel.  Teachers with extracurricular assignments acquire tenure as teachers but not in their position of the extracurricular assignment.  Teachers who have been promoted and have entered into an employment contract with the Board shall not be eligible to acquire tenured status in the position to which promoted but shall retain permanent status in their former position.

BUS OPERATORS

Tenure shall be granted bus operators in accordance with state law.  The law specifies that bus operators shall serve a probationary term of three (3) years reckoned from the date of first employment by the system.  Upon absence of notification of dismissal within that time, the employee becomes a permanent employee, with tenure in the system.

A probationary employee may be discharged by the School Board provided proper notice is given; a permanent employee may be discharged only for the reasons set forth in the law and provided that due process is followed as set forth in statutory provisions.

OTHER SCHOOL EMPLOYEES

No tenure is granted by law to other non-certificated employees in Ascension Parish.

Revised:  November, 1985

Ref:   La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§17:441, 17:442, 17:443, 17:444

Ascension Parish School Board