FILE: GBL
TENURE
TEACHERS
A teacher who has acquired tenure before September 1, 2012 shall retain tenure, subject to the provisions of state law. Effective beginning on July 1, 2012, a teacher shall be rated highly effective for five (5) years within a six-year period pursuant to the Personnel Evaluation Plan adopted by the School Board in accordance with La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§17:3881 through 3905, to be granted tenure. The Superintendent shall notify a teacher, in writing, when tenure has been awarded and the teacher shall be deemed to have acquired tenure on the date specified therein.
Beginning with the 2013-2014 school year, a tenured teacher who receives a performance rating of ineffective pursuant to the teacher’s annual evaluation shall immediately lose his/her tenure and all rights related thereto. If a teacher is rated highly effective based on the evidence of the growth portion of the evaluation but is rated ineffective according to the observation portion, within thirty (30) days after such finding, the teacher shall be entitled to a second observation by members of a team of three (3) designees, chosen by the Superintendent, which shall not include the principal.
A teacher who loses tenure shall reacquire tenure if any of the following applies:
The teacher’s ineffective performance rating is reversed pursuant to the procedures for resolving conflict contained in Bulletin 130, Regulations for Evaluation and Assessment of School Personnel, and the Board’s grievance procedure. In such case, the teacher’s tenure shall be immediately reinstated.
The teacher receives a performance rating of highly effective for five (5) years within a six-year period subsequent to receiving an ineffective rating.
Teachers Paid with Federal Funds
A teacher paid with federal funds shall not be eligible to acquire tenure, nor shall time spent in employment paid with federal funds be counted toward the time required for acquisition of tenure.
CONTRACT APPOINTEES
Any teacher who has acquired tenure and is promoted to a higher salaried position shall not be eligible to gain tenure in the position to which promoted, but shall retain any tenure acquired as a teacher.
Any person hired under a performance contract shall not be eligible to gain tenure.
BUS OPERATORS
La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §17:492 specifies that bus operators shall serve a probationary term of three (3) years reckoned from the date of first employment with the School Board, provided bus operators personally operate and drive the school bus they are employed to operate. Upon absence of notification of dismissal by the School Board within the probationary period, the bus operator shall be granted tenure at the end of the probationary term. School bus operators hired on or after July 1, 2012 shall not be granted tenure.
SCHOOL EMPLOYEES
No tenure is granted by law or Board policy to school employees of the Acadia Parish School Board. School employee shall be defined as any employee whose job description does not require the holding of a teaching certificate or who is not employed as a bus driver.
Revised: September 10, 2012
Ref: La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§17:82, 17:411, 17:441, 17:442, 17:443, 17:444, 17:492, 17:493, 17:494, 17:1205, 17:1213, 17:1217, 17:3881, 17:3882, 17:3883, 17:3884, 17:3901, 17:3902, 17:3903, 17:3904
Board minutes, 9-10-12
Acadia Parish School Board