FILE:  GBG

PROFESSIONAL PERSONNEL PROBATION
All teachers during the first two years of employment shall be on probation, except:

  1. a tenured teacher from another school district shall be on probation for one year;
  2. three years of probation may be required by the Board if a probationer has not received a provisional certificate by the end of the first year of employment;
  3. a probationer, who is transferred upon his/her own request during the probationary period, may be required to serve three years of probation; or
  4. the Board may require a third year of probation if the probationer's evaluation warrants it.

A probationary teacher shall be employed for the ensuing year unless notified in writing at least 60 days before the close of each school year that the teacher's services will be discontinued.

NOTE: See statement coded GBL for statements relating to tenure.
LEGAL REFERENCE: Teachers' Tenure Act: 38.81-38.84
REVISED: 6-24-86
 

The Benton Harbor Area Schools, Berrien County, Michigan