3.01 Definitions
A. Professional Staff
The "professional staff" includes teachers, supervising teachers, program specialists, learning specialists, resource teachers, coordinators, psychologists, counselors, assistant principals, unit principals, principals, directors, executive directors, assistants to the Superintendent, executive assistants, the Superintendent and any other personnel required to be certificated by the State Department of Education.
B. Employees
An "employee" is any person holding a position in the Akron Public Schools, subject to appointment, removal, promotion or reduction by the Board of Education or by the Superintendent of Schools or by his representative or by the Civil Service Commission. This term may include members of the professional staff, the Treasurer, persons in coordinate, architectural and engineering services; persons in part-time teaching positions; members of the clerical and secretarial staffs, members of the maintenance and operations staffs; members of the food services staff, and members of the educational assistants staff.
C. Member
"Member" means all certificated persons employed by the Board for which the AEA is the recognized representative as defined in Article II, Section 2.01 of this Agreement.
D. Work Days
Work days are those days established by the school calendar adopted by the Board pursuant to Section 3.06 on which employees are to be in attendance.
E. Immediate Family: Death
For Death, the "immediate family" includes father, mother, sister, brother, husband, wife, child, grandparent, step grandparent, grandchild, father-in-law, mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, stepson, stepdaughter, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, step grandchild, any individual directly responsible for the rearing of the member or any dependent person in the immediate household.
For Death, "other relative" includes an uncle, aunt, cousin, niece, nephew, and in-laws other than those described in the preceding paragraph.
F. Immediate Family: Personal Illness
For personal illness, the "immediate family" includes husband, wife, a dependent son, a dependent daughter, any dependent person residing in the immediate household; or a father, mother, sister or brother, son or daughter who is seriously ill.
G. Treasurer
The "Treasurer" shall mean the Treasurer of the Board.
H. President
The "President" shall mean the President of the AEA.
I. Executive Director - Human Resources
The "Executive Director - Human Resources" shall mean the Executive Director - Human Resources, unless otherwise specified.
J. Seniority
1. "Seniority" shall mean a numerical ranking based upon the total length of continuous full-time service with the Board. In the event that two members have the same number of years of continuous service, the following order shall be used to determine the most senior member: (1) effective date, (2) Board approval date, (3) contract offer date, (4) time of day of offer.
2. "Classification seniority" applies only to counselors and shall be the total length of continuous service in that classification with the Board. When, for the purposes of transfer or reduction in force, two or more counselors have identical classification seniority, total seniority in the Akron Public Schools shall determine the most/least senior of the counselors with identical classification seniority.
K. Curriculum
"Curriculum" shall be considered the planned program of instruction and
Co-curricular activities authorized by the board.
L. Personal Business
"Personal Business" is an obligation or emergency over which the member has no control and which requires immediate attention.
M. Full Time
"Full Time" means any certified member contracted under time schedule 380 (or more) who works five (5) hours or more per day, five (5) days per week.
N. Co-Curricular Activities
“Co-curricular activities” shall be those activities for which the Board issues a supplemental contract.
O. Middle School
Whenever there is reference to secondary school or a secondary school member in this Agreement, it shall include middle schools and middle school members.
P. Preparation
A preparation is any class designated by an individual course code assigned by the Superintendent and offered for credit. “Independent Study” shall not be considered a preparation.
Q. Master Equivalency
Master Degree Equivalency on the salary schedule shall mean completion of 30 graduate semester hours or 45 graduate quarter hours of credit after completion of Bachelor Degree.
Effective July 1, 2000, no employee can enter the Master Degree lane on the teachers’ salary schedule without actually holding a Master Degree from an accredited university.
Effective July 1, 1994, the Master Degree +18 Graduate Semester Hours lane on the teachers’ salary schedule shall be amended by adding “Equivalency +18.”
Effective October 1, 2000, no employee can enter Equivalency +18 Graduate Semester Hours lane on the teachers’ salary schedule without actually holding a Master Degree from an accredited university and earning an additional 18 Graduate Semester Hours since the degree was conferred.
Effective July 1, 1994, no new employee can qualify for an equivalency degree lane on the teachers’ salary schedule.
3.02 Annual Time Schedule
The “time schedule” covering the school year, the numbers of days within the school year, and the calendar for the school year are established annually by the Board.
Members shall be paid their daily rate of pay for each day that they are required to work during the summer in excess of their time schedule.
3.03 Daily Rate of Pay
The “daily rate of pay” of members is determined by dividing the total annual salary for the school year by the total number of days for the employment classification (job code).