15-1327. Limitations on reduction of salaries
or personnel
A. The board of directors may direct the superintendent to reduce salaries or
eliminate permanent employee positions in the Arizona state schools for the deaf and the
blind in order to effectuate economies in the operation of the schools or to improve the
efficient conduct and administration of the schools. The superintendent, with the
approval of the board, may designate the positions to be eliminated within an employee
classification, and the reduction of personnel shall occur within and be limited to that
specific employee classification. A person whose position is eliminated does not have a
preferred right to employment in a different employee classification, except that when a
vacancy exists in a teaching position and no teacher who is currently employed at any of
the schools applies for the position, a person whose position in a management or
supervisory position is eliminated has a preferred right to employment as a teacher,
provided that the person is qualified for the teaching position. A person whose position
is eliminated and who is transferred to a different position in a lower grade does not
have a preferred right to a continued salary based on the former position or to any
particular salary level in the lower grade. No reduction in the salary of a certificated
teacher or credentialed specialist who has been employed by the schools for more than one
year shall be made except in accordance with a general salary reduction in the schools by
which the person is employed, and in such case the reduction shall be applied equitably
among all permanent employees.
B. Notice of a general salary reduction shall be given to each certificated teacher
and credentialed specialist affected not later than May 15 before the fiscal year in
which the reduction is to take effect.
C. A permanent employee dismissed for reasons of economy or to improve the
efficient conduct and administration of the schools shall have a preferred right of
reappointment in the order of original employment by the board of directors in the event
of an increase in the number of permanent employees or the reestablishment of services
within a period of three years.
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