| Licking Heights Local School District |
| Bylaws & Policies |
3411 - PLACEMENT ON SALARY SCHEDULE
The Board of Education 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 District’s salary schedule as long as no teacher receives less that the State minimum salary schedule amount and provided full credit for a minimum of five (5) 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 state public school, regardless of training level, with each year consisting of at least 120 days under a teacher's contract; | |
| B. | Years of teaching service in a chartered school or institution that subsequently became chartered or a chartered, special-education program or a special-education program that became charter operated by the State or by a subdivision or other local government unit of this State as a certified teacher, regardless of training level; each year must consist of at least 120 days; | |
| C. | 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. |
In the absence of collective bargaining agreement language or an express contractual provision to the contrary, teachers employed by the Board who previously retired from the District and/or who have previous teaching experience in the District must be credited with the appropriate number of such years of service on the salary schedule upon re-employment.
R.C. 3317.13, 3317.14
Adopted 4/28/04
Revised 12/19/17