Superintendent's Preliminary
Recommendation
Questions and
Answers
SECTION H: Staffing
- If schools are closed, how will the teachers
and support staff in those schools be
reassigned?
The district's senior leadership is scheduling meeting times to
consult with the Principals Association of Seattle Schools (PASS)
regarding a reassignment plan.
The Seattle Education Association (SEA) and the district have
begun discussions regarding the displacement and reassignment of
certificated employees, office personnel, and paraprofessionals.
The following general principles will guide this process:
- The reassignment process due to consolidation will be
structured to best accommodate the displaced employee.
- The process will minimize complexity of the reassignment
procedures.
- Reassignments due to consolidation will provide choice to the
employee.
- The reassigning of SEA personnel due to consolidation will be
scheduled to be completed by May 15, 2006, and prior to open
hiring.
- Time will be scheduled for transitioning new staff to
consolidated sites.
Local 609 (which includes custodians, gardeners, nutrition
services, and school security specialists) and the district's labor
relations manager are scheduling meeting times to review current
bargained procedures for displacing employees and make
recommendations as appropriate to the procedures.
- If schools are closed, are you planning to keep
the teachers and students from those schools together in another
location?
When a program or school is moved from one location to another,
where possible, the district will work to accommodate students and
staff moving together to the new location. When a school is closed
and students are reassigned to a variety of locations, staff will
have an option to move to one of the locations where their students
have been sent.
