One professional development day will be held in the fall and one in the spring. The schedule will be from 8:30 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. with a one hour lunch period.

(information taken from page 10 in the Union Contract)

(d) Principals shall provide teachers with a forty-minute, duty-free lunch period, but in no event shall it be less than forty minutes for elementary teachers
(Pre-K to 6).

(information taken from page 13 (d) in the Union Contract)

(4) Missed Professional Period - In the event an elementary school teacher loses his/her professional period or periods as a result of the absence or unavailability of a special area teacher due to administrative action, he/she shall be paid one-fifth of the substitute pay to the nearest dollar amount per period lost.

(information taken from page 26 (4) in the Union Contract)

(information taken from page 30 (b) in the Union Contract)

(b) If a teacher reports to work and becomes sick on the job, the maximum amount of time charged to his/her sick leave shall not exceed 1/2 of a working day, provided that the teacher is at work for at least ninety minutes from the official sign-in time as stated in Schedule I.

(information taken from page 31 (1) in the Union Contract)

(1) Personal Reasons. If the total amount of time that a teaching staff member arrives late or leaves early exceeds three hours and fifteen minutes in a school year, he/she is penalized one-half sick or personal day. Each additional hour in the same school year shall be penalized one-half sick or personal day. When signing out early the teaching staff member must inform a building administrator and sign the proper form, a copy of which will be given to the teaching staff member. However, the teaching staff member may not invoke this clause on the final day before Christmas vacation, February recess, and Easter vacation, the Thanksgiving Holiday and all other days preceding school holidays.

(information taken from page 36 (d) in the Union Contract)

(d) All applications must be submitted to the Board of Education for approval prior to November 15 of the year preceding the leave, and the Board will grant the sabbaticals prior to February 1.

(Information starts on page 61 - 75 in the Union Contract)

(Clerk hours of work - p 61-62 (a) and holiday hours - p 64 (3)
in the Union Contract)

(information taken from page 62 (2) in the Union Contract)

Summer work schedule begins July 1 and ends August 31. Starting with the second week of July, there will be six weeks during which the offices of all secretaries and clerks will be closed on Fridays. During those weeks, there will be four days of work, hours 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. with a half-hour lunch period. In the remaining five-day work weeks (including the week of 4th of July), the secretarial hours will be 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with a half-hour lunch period. Vacations taken during

the weeks in which the four-day week is in effect, will constitute four vacation days per week.