Non-Tenured Educators: 5 days/year accumulative to fifteen days.* Tenured Educators: 180 days/year minus the sick leave taken in the previous two years. Compensation for last 90 days is 85% of regular salary. Previous days are at full pay. Notify principal ASAP when sick leave is required.
All Educators: 5 days/year for serious illness of listed person(s) at full pay. One of these days may be used to care for person with ordinary home ailment. This leave is charged against your sick leave. This leave must be cleared with principal first.
All Educators: 5 days/year for death of listed person(s) with full pay.
All Educators: 3 days/year cumulative to 10 maximum with full pay. This leave should be scheduled in advance with principal. (Example: A new teacher using two days/year would have 10 days available in their eighth year.)
There are several other leaves listed in the Agreement Handbook (military, jury, leave of absence, professional development, etc.). Please refer to section 14 of that book for information on these leaves.
When special circumstances merit, additional leave may be granted upon written application to the superintendent. As a note, 92 such applications have been made to the Superintendent in the last year, 90 of which were granted.
*The district works with non-tenured educators to provide more sick leave when needed.
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