Professional Report

CONTRACTS FOR TEACHERS

one of the following licenses: professional educator, senior professional educator, or lead professional educator. If the teacher did not hold a master’s degree at the time the initial license was issued, the teacher must have completed 30 semester hours of coursework in the area of licensure or in an area related to the teaching field since that initial license was issued. If the teacher held a master’s degree at the time the initial license was issued, the additional coursework requirement is six hours of graduate coursework. For those teachers holding a professional, permanent, or life certificate, the teacher must have completed at least three years of service in the district and an additional 30 semester hours of coursework in the area of certification or in an area related to the teaching field. If the teacher had been awarded a continuing contract elsewhere, the service requirement is reduced to two years. The service requirement is three years in the district unless the teacher had attained continuing contract status elsewhere, in which case the service requirement is reduced to two years. 1) The teacher holds a professional educator, senior professional educator, or lead professional educator license. 2) The teacher has held an educator license (other than a substitute teaching license) for at least seven years. 3) For a teacher not holding a master’s degree at the time of initial licensure, the teacher must have completed 30 semester hours of coursework in the area of licensure or in an area related to the teaching field since the initial license was issued. 4) For a teacher holding a master’s degree at the time the initial license was received, the teacher must have completed six hours of graduate coursework in the area of licensure or in an area related to teaching since the initial license was issued. The above requirements for the continuing contract for those teachers licensed on or after January 1, 2011 prevail over any collective bargaining agreement. It should also be noted that an educator license for substitute teaching no longer applies. In essence, teaching service under a substitute license will not count toward the seven years of holding an educator license. Also, coursework taken while holding only a substitute license will not count toward the additional training required for a continuing contract. The deadline for notifying teachers of the nonrenewal of their teaching contract is June 1, and the deadline for teachers to notify a board that they are not accepting a contract is June 15. A teacher not returning a signed contract by June 15 is deemed to have accepted the contract. For teachers licensed on or after January 1, 2011 , requirements for the continuing contract include the following:

CONTRACT DEADLINES, TEACHERS’

3319.11

These dates prevail over any conflicting provision of a collective bargaining agreement entered into after March 22, 2013.

CONTRACT SUSPENSION, ADMINISTRATOR

3319.171

If the Board has adopted a policy on the suspension of administrative contracts, it may suspend contracts in accordance with that policy. Ohio law specifically recognizes “financial conditions” of the district as one of the authorized reasons for the contract suspensions. The policy (which must address such issues as reasons for suspension, order of suspension, and restoration rights) must be developed from input from the superintendent and all administrators.