2025-2025 Master Contract Redline

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MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN THE BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES OF THE NORTHEAST SCHOOL CORPORATION AND THE NORTHEAST CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATION 2024-20252025-2026 SULLIVAN COUNTY TABLE OF CONTENTS Article I Article II Article III Article IV Article V Article VI Article VII Article VIII Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Appendix E Appendix F Recognition Entire Contract Leaves of Absence Compensation and Expenses Fringe Benefits Severance and Retirement Pay Provisions Grievance Procedure Attestations and Term of Agreement Salary Schedule Extra Duty Assignments Grievance Form Application for Personal Leave Time Staff Development Leave Form Personal Leave Form 2 Page 3 4 4 9 10 12 19 22 23 26 30 31 32 33 MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN THE BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES OF THE NORTHEAST SCHOOL CORPORATION AND THE NORTHEAST CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATION THIS MASTER CONTRACT entered into this 10th day of November, 2025 by and between the Board of School Trustees of the Northeast School Corporation, hereinafter called the “Board”, and the Northeast Classroom Teachers Association, hereinafter sometimes called the “Local Association”, an affiliate of the Indiana State Teachers Association and the National Education Association, hereinafter called the “Association”. ARTICLE I RECOGNITION A. The Board hereby recognizes the Northeast Classroom Teachers Association as the exclusive representative of all teachers in the school corporation. B. DEFINITIONS: 1. The term “teacher”, when used in this Contract shall refer to all certificated personnel employed by the Board, except for supervisory personnel, meaning any individual who has: (i) authority, acting for the school corporation to hire, transfer, suspend, layoff, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward or discipline school employees, or (ii) responsibility to direct school employees, and adjust their grievances, or (iii) effectively to recommend the action set out in these categories; provided, however that exercise of the foregoing authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature but requires the use of independent judgment. Supervisors shall include, but shall not be limited to, superintendents, assistant superintendents, business managers and supervisors, or directors with corporation-wide responsibilities, principals, vice-principals, school corporation nurse, or athletic directors who have responsibility for evaluating teachers. 2.