APPENDIX D ACADEMIC AND SCHOOL SUPPORT STIPENDS

East Providence School District
 

Note: Extra days can be completed during any school vacation and/or break including but not limited to time after the contractual end day with building or central administration approval.

Note: If the district determines it will return to an assistant principal model, the Dean positions will be removed from the CBA and any management or administrative duties shall return to the Administration.

DEPARTMENT HEADS

HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT HEADS

*At the beginning of SY – 2024/2025 and SY – 2025/2026 increase of $200.00 per lane for each department head

High School Department Heads Stipends

Note: The stipend is based on the number of teachers in the department and could change during the life of the contract.

All teachers presently without Department Heads at the high school shall be assigned to a department with a department head.

All middle schools shall have Department Coordinators for Math, English, Social Studies, Science, School Counselors and Special Education. Special area Department Coordinators shall be created as needed at the discretion of the Superintendent.

MIDDLE SCHOOL COORDINATORS

SCHOOL COUNSELORS

9. Supplementary Benefits Based on Length of Service in East Providence

1. Last year of service before retirement after at least thirty (30) years of teaching service, twenty- five years of that in East Providence, three thousand four hundred seventy-two dollars ($3,472) in last year of service; November to June providing the Superintendent is notified no later than January 15th in the school year of the retirement contingent upon the teacher completing the school year.

Said payment of supplementary benefits shall not be made to any teacher who has served as an “In-Service Facilitator” during his/her career.

10. Teacher of Special Education

Teachers of Special Education, including speech therapists, teachers of emotionally-disturbed students, and school psychologists, who are fully certified for the position, shall receive three hundred ninety-seven dollars ($397).

Effective November 1, 1982 newly hired and/or newly assigned teachers certified in the above areas shall not be eligible for this stipend.

11. Special Subject Teachers in the Elementary School

Members of the bargaining unit who travel to more than one (1) school per day shall be reimbursed at the mileage rate set by the Internal Revenue Service each year and in accordance with the Superintendent’s study as of May 1980.

12. Home Teachers

All home teachers shall be paid at the rate of forty-two ($42.00) dollars per hour.

1. Home teacher positions shall first be offered to the classroom teacher.
2. Should the classroom teacher not accept the assignment, the position shall be offered to teachers in the building from a pre-designated volunteer list arranged alphabetically.
3. Should no teacher in the building accept the assignment, the position shall then be offered to other members of the bargaining unit from a pre-designated volunteer list arranged alphabetically.
4. Should no member of the bargaining unit accept the assignment, the position shall then be offered to other certified teachers.
5. In the event that a teacher wishes to participate after the pre-designated volunteer list of teachers in a building has been established, the teacher will be placed at the bottom of the school’s list for the remainder of the school year.

13. In-Service Facilitator

1. Teachers with twenty (20) years in East Providence shall be eligible to elect once during the remainder of his/her career to be an in-service facilitator for a school year.

2. Such teachers shall notify the Superintendent of his//her intention to become a facilitator by October 1 and during the first semester of the school year develop an outline for presentation drawing upon his/her own experience and literature in the field of education. Such presentation shall be delivered to faculty as part of the in-service training program during the second semester at a time designated by the Superintendent. A written synopsis of the presentation shall also be filed with the Superintendent for use in other teacher training programs.

3. The pay for said position shall be twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500).

4. The School Committee and the Association recognize that this program is designed to further the goals set forth by the Governor’s 1991 Task Force in its report “To Improve Education in Rhode Island by the Year 1991”, by making teachers feel “more valued as they put their experience and training to further use” and by increasing the “status, recognition and salary” of experienced teachers. The parties agree to fully cooperate toward achieving these ends.

5. The following exceptions to the In-service Facilitator apply only to those teachers employed during the 1991-1992 year:

a. Any teachers who terminates employment prior to eligibility for the In-service Facilitator will receive the actual amount of deferment.

b. Teachers who meet the contractual requirements for In-service Facilitator are eligible to receive an additional $1,000.

c. Any teacher who has accessed his/her deferred monies is limited to twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500).

14. After-School Science Labs

All after-school science lab teachers shall be paid thirty-nine dollars and twenty-eight cents ($39.28) per science lab.

15. School/District Site Managers for State Testing

Members of the bargaining unit who are designated by the Principal to coordinate State Testing shall be paid an annual stipend of seven hundred forty-six dollars ($746.00).

16. Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS)

MTSS members shall be paid an annual stipend of three hundred dollars ($300.00) during their training year and five hundred dollars ($500.00) per year after training and MTSS has been implemented. The MTSS Specialist will receive an annual stipend of seven hundred ($700.00) per year. There will be no more than seven (7) MTSS members per building.

All extracurricular positions and stipend positions will be posted when a vacancy occurs subject to any federal grant/Title I requirements regarding selection and compensation. The administration will share such requirements with the Union in advance of the posting.

The Weingarten Right

The Right to a Shop Steward in Disciplinary Proceedings

One of the Fundamental rights of collective bargaining is that an employee on request may have a shop steward present if the employee is questioned by the employer about a matter that could lead to disciplinary action against the employee. The right to a steward is a Section 7 right of concerted activity protected by Section 8(a) (1). This is commonly called the Weingarten right, after the Supreme Court decision upholding the Board ruling establishing the basic principal.
However, the employee must ask for the steward. The employer has no obligations to tell an employee of the right before questioning begins.

Right to a Safe School State Law 16-2-17

Each student, staff member, teacher and administrator has a right to attend and/or work at a school which is safe and secure, and which is conducive to learning and which is free from the threat, actual or implied, of physical harm by a disruptive student. A disruptive student is a person who is subject to compulsory school attendance who exhibits persistent conduct which substantially impedes the ability of other students to learn or otherwise substantially interferes with the rights stated above, and who has failed to respond to corrective and rehabilitative measures presented by staff, teachers or ad