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Hiring Process and Criteria
The Superintendent is responsible for recruiting personnel, in compliance with School Board policy, and making hiring recommendations to the School Board. If the recommendation is rejected, the Superintendent must submit another. Educational support personnel applicants are initially screened by the Building Principal or supervisor. The District shall hire the best qualified personnel consistent with budget and staffing requirements, and shall comply with School Board policy on equal employment opportunity and minority recruitment. No individual will be employed who has been convicted of a criminal offense listed in Section 5/21-23a of The School Code
All applicants must complete a District application form in order to be considered for employment.
Job Descriptions
The Superintendent shall develop and maintain a current comprehensive job description for each position or job category other than the Superintendency; however, a provision in a collective bargaining agreement or individual contract will control in the event of a conflict.
Investigations
The Superintendent or designee shall ensure that a fingerprint-based criminal history records check and a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database and Violent Offender Against Youth Database (when available) is performed on each applicant as required by State law. The Superintendent or designee shall notify an applicant if the applicant is identified in either database.. The Board President will keep a conviction record confidential and share it only with the Superintendent, Regional Superintendent, State Superintendent, State Teacher Certification Board, or any other person necessary to the hiring decision.
Each newly hired employee must complete an Immigration and Naturalization Service Form as required by federal law.
The District retains the right to discharge any employee whose criminal background investigation reveals a conviction for committing or attempting to commit any of the offenses outlined in Section 5/21-23a - of The School Code or who falsifies, or omits facts from, his or her employment application or other employment documents.
Physical Examinations
New employees must furnish evidence of physical fitness to perform assigned duties and freedom from communicable disease, including tuberculosis. All physical fitness examinations and tests for tuberculosis must be performed by a physician licensed in Illinois, or any other state, to practice medicine and surgery in any of its branches, or an advanced practice nurse who has a written collaborative agreement with a collaborating physician that authorizes the advanced practice nurse to perform health examinations, or a physician assistant who has been delegated the authority by his or her supervising physician to perform health examinations. The employee must have the physical examination and tuberculin test performed no more than 90 days before submitting evidence of it to the School Board.
Any employee may be required to have an additional examination by a physician who is licensed in Illinois to practice medicine and surgery in all its branches, or an advanced practice nurse who has a written collaborative agreement with a collaborating physician that authorizes the advanced practice nurse to perform health examinations, or a physician assistant who has been delegated the authority by his or her supervising physician to perform health examinations, if the examination is job-related and consistent with business necessity. The School Board will pay the expenses of any such examination.
Orientation Program
The District’s staff will provide an orientation program for new employees to acquaint them with the District’s policies and procedures, the school’s rules and regulations, and the responsibilities of their position.
LEGAL REF.: Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §12112, 29 C.F.R. Part 1630.
Immigration Reform and Control Act, 8 U.S.C. §1324a et seq.
105 ILCS 5/10-20.7, 5/10-21.4, 5/10-21.9, 5/10-22.34, 5/21-23a, 5/10-22.34b, 5/22-6.5, and 5/24-1 et seq.
Duldulao v. St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital, 483 N.E.2d 956 (Ill.App.1, 1985), aff’d in part and remanded 505 N.E.2d 314 (Ill., 1987).
Kaiser v. Dixon, 468 N.E.2d 822 (Ill.App.2, 1984).
Molitor v. Chicago Title & Trust Co., 59 N.E.2d 695 (Ill.App.1, 1945).
CROSS REF.: 3:50 (Administrative Personnel Other Than the Superintendent), 5:10 (Equal Employment Opportunity and Minority Recruitment), 5:40 (Communicable and Chronic Infectious Disease), 5:280 (Education Support Personnel - Duties and Qualifications)
Reviewed: May 17, 2004
Adopted: August 23, 2004
Revisions Adopted: January 24, 2005; December 19, 2005; December 18, 2006, February 01, 2010
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