The Board of Education shall adopt regulations for the following types of leave for District

Employees:

1.         Sick Leave Certified Staff

All full-time teachers of the Keytesville School District will be allowed twelve (12) days of sick leave per school year. Sick leave will include serious illness or death of father, mother, son, daughter, husband, wife, brother, sister, grandfather, grandmother, and other comparable relatives. In the case of death in the family, the leave may include the day before and the day after the funeral. Beginning with the 2015-16 school year, all new hires will have ten (10) days of sick leave per year (all other aspects of sick leave will stay the same).Whenever all accumulated sick leave has been used, pay will be deducted on a per diem basis until regular duty is resumed. The exception to this would be if the employee were hospitalized at the time all sick leave had been exhausted. Under this circumstance, the employee’s deduction would be one-half per diem for the next five days or until the hospitalization ends; whichever is the lesser of the two.

Faculty members who are under a doctor’s care, or who have an immediate family member under a doctor’s care, and who have used all of their sick leave and all personal days, and who have been without pay for five days may petition the faculty for a donation of sick days to be used for ninety percent (90%) of additional consecutive days missed. The Superintendent must give approval of all transfers of sick leave days.

Beginning with the 2008-2009 school year, certified staff members may be compensated for each unused sick day at the same rate that is being paid for substitutes.

Employees leaving the system will be paid the same rate that is being paid for substitutes for each unused day of sick leave (40 days maximum).

The Board reserves the right to require a physician’s certification attesting to the illness or disability of the claimant and/or inclusive incapacitation if the absence is for more than eight consecutive days.

NOTE: Those teachers who are employed part time will have their sick leave days prorated according to the terms of employment.

2.         Sick Leave Non-Certified

All *full-time, non-certified staff shall receive one (1) day of sick leave for each month of contracted employment. Sick leave will include serious illness or death of father, mother, son, daughter, husband, wife, brother, sister, grandfather, grandmother and other comparable relatives. In the case of death in the family, the leave may include the day before and the day after the funeral. All full-time employees may use two days of sick leave as personal leave each year subject to the approval of the employee’s immediate supervisor.

Whenever all accumulated sick leave has been used, pay will be deducted on a per diem basis until regular duty is resumed. The exception to this would be if the employee were hospitalized at the time all sick leave had been exhausted. Under this circumstance, the employee’s deduction would be one-half per diem for the next five days or until the hospitalization ends; whichever is the lesser of the two.

Beginning with the 2015-2016 school year, non-certified staff members (except District Book-Keeper and Transportation Director) may be compensated for each unused sick day at half district sub pay rate for each unused day of sick leave (40 days maximum).  The District Book-Keeper and Transportation Director will be compensated at district sub pay rate.

*Full-time employment will be defined as those individuals who are expected to work on a consecutive daily basis regardless of the number of hours worked each day. Those employees who are not contracted to work on a consecutive daily basis will have their sick leave days prorated according to the terms of employment.

3.         Personal Leave Certified

            All full-time employees may use two days of sick leave as personal leave each year subject to the approval of the employee’s immediate supervisor.

4.         Personal Leave Non-certified

All full-time employees may use two days of sick leave as person leave each year subject to the approval of the superintendent. Personal Days are not accumulative.

5.         Professional Day

In an effort to encourage educational growth, teachers will have one professional day made available to them each year for the purpose of observing the teaching technique of another teacher in a similar discipline. In order to be eligible, the teacher must apply to the superintendent for approval. In this application the teacher must supply any pertinent information; such as name of cooperating teacher, where the observation is taking place and when the observation is being done. If the application is accepted, arrangements will be made for the teacher to be released from his/her teaching duties for a day.

6.         Bereavement Leave

In the case of death in the family, the leave may include the day before and the day after the funeral

7.         Leave for Jury Duty

Employees may be excused by the Superintendent with full pay for jury duty with the stipulation that any remuneration for such duty shall be paid to the school district.        

8.         Military Leave

9.         Leave of Absence

10.       Family and Medical Care Leave (See Policy and Regulation 4321.)

11.       Leave

Leave shall not be allowed the day(s) prior to or the day(s) after a holiday or the firs/last two weeks of school unless an exceptionally critical reason commands it.  If this procedure is not followed, it could result in an employee being docked pay for work days missed.  The Superintendent/designee has the right to deny any request for leave that does not conform to the policy or would cause a hardship to students or staff.