Master Agreement 2005 - State Employment Relations Board

experience shall be given to the teacher as experience
credit on the experience steps.
901.05 Members of the bargaining unit possessing a bachelor’s
degree and providing service in a Trades and Industries
teaching area shall be placed on the 150 Hours and
Bachelor’s Degree track for salary purposes. OWE and
OWAshall not be considered a Trades and Industries
teaching area for purposes described in this section.
901.06 Recognition of training shall be on the basis of transcripts
of credit.
901.07 Credit for years of public school teaching experience
shall be granted in full up to five (5) years and, for teachershired
on or after July 1, 2000, may be granted up to
ten (10) years. A “year” shall consist of at least one hundred
and twenty (120) days for at least seven (7) hours
perday during a school year. Public school teaching
experience, for purposes of this provision, shall include
teaching experience in all public schools, teaching experience
in accredited armed forces and U.S. State Department
Dependency Schools, and teaching experience in
the Peace Corps and VISTA. Service credit may be given
to physical therapists, school social workers, nurses,
occupational therapists and speech therapistsforprivate
employment or self-employment prior to employment by
the Board, withatleast eight months’ full-time employment
or self-employment inatwelve-monthperiod
counting as one year.
901.08 Eligibility for the Master’s Degree Plus 30 Semester
Hours track shall be based on credit earned after the date
of the master’s degree.
901.09 Eligibility for the Master’s Degree Plus 30 Semester
Hours track and the Ph.D. Degree track shall be granted
for graduate study in the field of education or graduate
study which is generally related to the teacher’s area of
certification.
901.10 The annual contract salary for members of the bargainingunitonteachers’
payroll plan A or teachers’ payroll
plan B shall be divided into twenty-one (21) equal
checks for teachers on payroll plan A and twenty-six
(26) equal checks for teachers on payroll plan B and such
members shall have the option of receiving their checks
on plan A or plan B. The confidentiality of individual
checks shall be maintained through the use of pay
envelopes or other procedures mutually agreed upon by
the parties.
901.11 Notwithstanding Article 901, during the term of
this Agreement, placement on the salary schedules in
Article 902 shall be at the Bachelor’s Degree, 2-years
experience step, unless and until such time as the training
and experience places a teacher at a higher salary. No
teacher placed at the Bachelor’s Degree, 2-years experience
step shall be placed on that step for more than two
consecutive school years. Teachers who move to the
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