5:120 Ethics
 
 

Ethics
All District employees are expected to maintain high standards in their school relationships, to demonstrate integrity and honesty, to be considerate and cooperative, and to maintain professional and appropriate relationships with students, parents, staff members, and others.

The following employees must file a "Statement of Economic Interests" as required by the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act:
  1. Superintendent,
  2. Assistant Superintendents
  3. Directors
  4. Building Principal,
  5. Assistant Principals
  6. head of any department,
  7. any employee responsible for negotiating contracts, including collective bargaining agreement, in the amount of $1,000 or greater,
  8. hearing officer,
  9. any employee having supervisory authority for 20 or more employees, and
  10. any employee in a position that requires an administrative or a chief school business official endorsement.

Ethics and Gift Ban
Board policy 2:105, Ethics and Gift Ban, applies to all District employees. Students shall not be used in any manner for promoting a political candidate or issue.

Outside Employment and Conflict of Interest
No District employee shall be directly or indirectly interested in any contract, work, or business of the District, or in the sale of any article by or to the District, except when the employee is the author or developer of instructional materials listed with the State Board of Education and adopted for use by the Board. An employee having an interest in instructional materials must file an annual statement with the Board Secretary.

For the purpose of acquiring profit or personal gain, no employee shall act as an agent of the District nor shall an employee act as an agent of any business in any transaction with the District.

Employees shall not engage in any other employment or in any private business during regular working hours or at such other times as are necessary to fulfill appropriate assigned duties.

LEGAL REF.:        U.S. Constitution, First Amendment.
5 ILCS 420/4A-101.
50 ILCS 135/1 et seq.
105 ILCS 5/10.39, 5/22-5 and 5/24-22.
Pickering v. Board of Township H.S. Dist. 205, 391 U.S. 563 (1968).
CROSS REF.:         2:105 (Ethics and Gift Ban); 5:100 (Staff Development Program)

Reviewed: May 17, 2004
Adopted: August 23, 2004
Revisions Adopted: February 01, 2010