Philadelphia Federation of Teachers School District of Philadelphia

XXI. Working Conditions of Paraprofessionals
exists and police officers, crossing guards or non teaching assistants are not
available for such duty, and such duty in the past has been traditionally performed
by employees in that school.
5. Tentative duty rosters for employees in a school shall be prepared and
posted in such school. Notification of his/her proposed assignment for the following
school year shall be given to each employee at as early a date as possible
after the allotments are complete.
6. Except for such classifications whose duties and responsibilities required
them to work elsewhere, employees during the regular hours of work shall not
be required to perform any work in other than premises owned or operated by
the School District.
D. Support Services, Facilities and Supplies
1. Each employee shall have a locker and a mailbox, and where the nature of
the work requires, the employee should be provided with a desk with a lock.
2. As soon as possible, all books for all libraries shall either be purchased in
already processed form or shall be centrally catalogued.
Article XXii
Working Conditions of Pre-K Employees
A. Work Schedule
1. Where administratively possible, each employee will be released from his/
her classroom for fifteen (15) minutes during any continuous three (3) hour
period of assigned responsibility.
2. All Pre-K teachers shall be given a common preparation time of two (2)
hours per week each Friday. When Professional Development is offered for half
days on Fridays, the Office of Early Childhood will develop an alternate calendar
with input from the Federation that affords maximum professional development
opportunity for teachers and minimum inconvenience for parents.
Preparation time will be paid back when schools are closed because of inclement
weather or by administrative action.
3. Pre-K teachers who are certified shall be eligible for sabbatical leaves to
the same extent and subject to the same regulations as professional employees.
4. Pre-K Late Pick-Up Policy
(a) For Centers located in schools Pre-K children who have not been picked
up after the student day are to be left in the custody of the school Principal or
the Principal’s designee.
(b) For off-site Centers the following policy will apply:
(1) The process outlined in Article XVII, Section C will be implemented
at the beginning of each school year to identify two (2) adults from each center
who will remain after the workday to supervise children who are not picked up
on time. In the event these individuals are required to stay with children after
the conclusion of the teacher workday they will be compensated at their appropriate
EC rate. Teachers shall be repaid for any lost preparation time.
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