Archive: November 2001

The Safety Article and the Governance Team
By Steve Kaplan, UniServe Field Organizer

Each site is required to have a Site Security Plan.

• Section 11.6.1 states, "The Supervisor shall, in concert with the site governance team, be responsible for the development and implementation …".
• The Security Plan, Section 11.6.3, "… shall be reviewed and evaluated at least annually be the site supervisor and unit members."
• "All unit members shall be informed and given a copy of the existing written security within ten workdays of the date of reporting to their work location." Section 11.6.6
• Details of Site Security Plan criteria can be found in Section 11.6.2.

Each school site is required to have a site discipline plan.

• Section 11.7.1 states, "Each school site principal, in concert with the staff and governance team, shall develop a student discipline plan".
• The plan must conform "to the provisions of this Article and district procedures."
• Additional detail can be found in Sections 11.7.1 through 11.7.6. These include a teachers right to suspend from the classroom (Sections 11.7.3 and 11.7.4 and Ed Code 48900).

Notification Requirement

Section 11.10.4 requires the site administrator to "notify unit members of students assigned to their classrooms who have been convicted of serious offenses and/or have been formally suspended at other schools as soon as such information becomes available."

SDEA filed and won a grievance on this issues and the district committed to creating a procedure to ensure compliance with their responsibility under this section. The grievance contended that, at a minimum, if the information existed in the student's cumulative file than it was available. Since time has passed and no procedure is in place, we are seeking information about cases where this notification has not taken place and the classroom teacher learned of the student's history on their own or after a serious incident in the classroom. Please contact Steve Kaplan at SDEA (619-283-4411).