ARTICLE 17 TEACHER FILES

Glocester School Department

All teacher files shall be maintained under the following circumstances:

1. No material excluding references and information obtained in the process of evaluating the teacher for employment, which is derogatory to a teacher's conduct, service, character, or personality shall be placed in the files unless the teacher has had an opportunity to read the material. The teacher shall acknowledge that he/she has read such material by affixing his/her signature on the actual copy to be filed with the understanding that such signature merely signified that he/she has read the material. Such signature does not necessarily indicate agreement with its content.

2. A teacher shall have the right to answer any material filed and his/her reply shall be attached to the file copy.

3. Upon request, a teacher shall be allowed to examine his/her file (exclusive of confidential Placement Office material and job references) in the presence of the Superintendent or Principals or their authorized representative. The teacher shall make a dated and signed acknowledgment of each such examination of his/her file (at the time of the examination).

4. Upon receipt of a written request, the teacher shall be furnished a single reproduction of any material in his/her file, excluding confidential Placement Office material and job references obtained in the process of evaluating the teacher for employment.