15-1325. Superintendent and other personnel;
appointment; compensation; term of employment; qualifications;
nonretention notice
A. There shall be a superintendent of the schools who shall be the executive
officer. The superintendent shall be appointed by the board of directors, and the board
shall issue one, two or three year contracts for the superintendent. The superintendent
is eligible to receive compensation pursuant to section 38-611. The board of directors
shall designate the management and supervisory positions. The superintendent, with the
approval of and acting on behalf of the board, shall issue one, two or three year
contracts for the management and supervisory positions designated by the board pursuant
to this section. Compensation for persons issued contracts pursuant to this section
shall be paid according to a range of compensation approved by the board of directors.
B. The superintendent and the management and supervisory staff, except for the
persons contracted for personnel service and business and finance service shall be
persons who are competent educators of the deaf or the blind, or the multiply disabled
and sensory impaired, and who are acquainted with school management and class instruction
of the deaf or the blind, or the multiply disabled and sensory impaired. A person is
eligible to be the superintendent, or hold a position on the management or supervisory
staff except for a person contracted for personnel service and business and finance
service if the person has had actual experience as a teacher of the deaf or the blind or
the multiply disabled and sensory impaired.
C. The board of directors shall establish a system for the evaluation of the
performance of the superintendent in consultation with the administration of the
schools. The superintendent shall establish a system for the evaluation of the
performance of persons contracted pursuant to this section in consultation with the staff
of the schools.
D. On or before April 15 preceding the expiration of the superintendent's
employment contract, the board shall give written notice to the superintendent of the
board's intention to offer or not to offer a new employment contract. On or before April
15 preceding the expiration of the contract of a person contracted by the superintendent,
acting on behalf of the board of directors pursuant to this section, the superintendent
shall give written notice to the person of the board's intention to offer or not to offer
the person a new employment contract. If the board decides to offer the superintendent a
new employment contract, the board shall offer the new employment contract on or before
May 15 preceding the expiration of the superintendent's current employment contract. If
the board decides to offer a new employment contract to a person contracted pursuant to
this section, the superintendent, acting on behalf of the board, shall offer the new
employment contract on or before May 15 preceding the expiration of the current
employment contract. The person offered a contract pursuant to this subsection shall
accept the contract by signing and returning it to the board of directors within thirty
days or the offer is deemed refused. If the person adds written terms or conditions to
the employment contract offered, the person fails to accept the employment contract.
E. Notice of the board of directors' intention not to reemploy the superintendent
or a person contracted pursuant to this section shall be delivered to the superintendent
or the person contracted by one of the following:
1. The superintendent, in person, acting on behalf of the board.
2. Certified mail, postmarked on or before the deadline prescribed in subsection D
of this section and directed to the place of residence as recorded in the agency's
records.
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