Series 4000: PERSONNEL -- CERTIFIED & NON-CERTIFIED

4111 Recruitment and Selection 

The Board desires the Superintendent to develop and maintain a recruitment program designed to attract and hold the best possible personnel who are "highly qualified" as defined by federal law in the District's schools. All District teachers teaching a core academic subject area, as defined in the No Child Left Behind Act, must be determined to be highly qualified. 

The school district recognizes the heterogeneity of the people who live in the school district and believes that this characteristic should have an important bearing on all aspects of the school district's activities. 

The Board of Education believes it is especially important that this heterogeneity of population be recognized in the recruitment and assignment of personnel. 

To this end, the Board of Education shall develop and implement a written plan for minority staff recruitment. The administration is directed to make a serious effort to see that the recruitment procedures of the district produce a total staff representative of the total population of the district and that the assignment procedures of the district bring to each school staff members representative of the population represented by the student membership in each local school. 

The schools shall engage in fair and sound personnel practices in the appointment of all district employees. The administration shall be responsible for establishing recruitment, selection and appointment procedures.

The Superintendent shall insure that the District is in compliance with the provisions of Title I and the No Child Left Behind Act. Manuals and handbooks shall comply with federal law as to the qualifications for instructional personnel. Notice of professional qualifications shall be provided to parents/guardians of students in Title I schools and staffing pattern reviews as required by law shall be conducted annually. 

( cf. 4115 - Evaluation)

Legal Reference:     

Connecticut General Statutes

10-151 Employment of teachers. Notice and hearing on termination of contract (as amended by P.A. 12-116 An Act Concerning Educational Reform)

10-153 Discrimination on account of marital status.

10-183v Reemployment of teachers, as amended by P.A. 10-111, An Act Concerning Education Reform in Connecticut.

10-220 Duties of Boards of Education. 31-126 Unfair Employment Practices.

46a-60 Discriminatory employment practices prohibited