CODE: 4111
SECTION: INSTRUCTIONAL AND SUPPORT PERSONNEL
RECRUITMENT, SELECTION, AND HIRING
The West Milford Board of Education believes that the quality of the professional staff in large part determines the quality of the education offered district pupils. Therefore, the Superintendent of Schools shall have the responsibility of locating and recruiting the best qualified candidates to provide for the needs of district’s pupils.
Provisional teaching candidates shall be given equal consideration with other candidates for teaching positions. The Superintendent of Schools shall follow all requirements of the administrative code in providing the necessary training program for all teachers hired with provisional certificates.
It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Schools to ensure that persons nominated for employment shall meet all qualifications established by State or Federal law, including the initiation of a criminal history check, proof of citizenship or eligible alien status, and certification for the type of position for which nomination is made.
The Superintendent of Schools shall recommend for employment those individuals who, in his/her opinion, are best qualified to fill the vacancy without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, familial status, liability for service in the Armed Forces of the United States, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait of any individual, disability or other conditions not related to the duties and responsibilities of the job.
The Superintendent of Schools in determining the candidates to be nominated shall seek information whenever possible from the candidate's prior employers.
The West Milford Board of Education shall affirm employment and initial placement on the salary guide by a recorded roll call majority vote of the full membership of the Board.
The West Milford Board of Education shall appoint all staff members only from nominations made by the Superintendent of Schools. Should a nominee be rejected, it shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Schools to make other nominations.
First Reading: December 12, 2000
Adopted: December 19, 2000