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3411 - PLACEMENT ON SALARY SCHEDULES
The Governing Board retains the authority under State law to specify the salary of new positions and to determine the credit to be awarded for placement on the Educational Service Center’s salary schedule as long as no teacher receives less than the State minimum salary schedule amount and provided full credit for a minimum of five (5) years but not more than ten (10) years of actual teaching and military experience is given to each teacher.
In determining eligible credit for teaching and military experience years, the Superintendent shall consider the following:
| A. | Years of teaching service in the same school district or educational service center, regardless of training level, with each year consisting of at least 120 days under a teacher's contract. | |
| B. | Years of teaching service as a licensed teacher in a chartered, nonpublic school in Ohio or in another public school, regardless of training level, with each year consisting of at least 120 days under a teacher's contract. | |
| C. | Years in a chartered school or institution or a school or institution that subsequently became chartered or a chartered, special-education program or a special-education program that became chartered operated by the State or by a subdivision or other local government unit of this State as a licensed teacher, regardless of training level; each year must consist of at least 120 days. | |
| D. | Years of active military experience which must be eight (8) continuous months of service to be recognized as a year of authorized experience. |
Credit will not be given for substitute teaching except as required by Policy 3120.04 or State law.
The Superintendent is also authorized to credit, past service in:
| A. | a private school located in any other state or U.S. territory; | |
| B. | an overseas dependent school operated by the U.S. Armed Forces; | |
| C. | a school approved by the State Department of Education and operated by a State Agency; | |
| D. | a college, university, or related work experience. |
New staff members who have been licensed by the State to perform professional services in the public and nonpublic schools of Ohio, but who have not yet earned a baccalaureate degree, may be placed on a step of the salary schedule at the Superintendent’s discretion.
R.C. 3317.13, 3317.14
Revised 9/9/09