Board Policy GBS: Professional Organizations

ORGANIZATIONS, EMPLOYEE

| | | --- | | MISSION: To ensure that employee participation in organizations does not infringe on instructional time. |

The DeKalb County Board of Education recognizes its constitutional responsibility to represent all students, employees, and other constituents in matters pertaining to education. The Board will receive communications directly from employees or through formal administrative channels.

The Board will not recognize or condone the actions of agents of employee groups that may in any manner diminish educational services to students or restrict employees from carrying out job requirements.

Any employee has the right to join or not to join an organization. The Board shall strive to maintain a constructive relationship with any organization which enhances the school system educational program; supports representative government; and promotes cooperation among parents, teachers, administrators, and Board members in all educational endeavors. Such organizations shall be given equal consideration by principals, heads of departments, and other members of the administrative staff.

School facilities may be used for meetings of employee organizations with the approval of the principal or unit head. Announcements of meetings may be made at faculty meetings. No business of employee organizations, including recruiting, literature distribution, or meetings, shall be conducted during regular working hours.

The use of school time or materials is not authorized for any organization. Each school or unit administrator is authorized to designate a bulletin board accessible to employees for posting announcements. The professional organization posting the announcement must be identified. The school system courier service may be used by professional organizations to disseminate information of a purely educational nature.

Personally addressed correspondence may be placed in employee mailboxes. Any organization violating the "purely educational" parameters of courier service or employee mailboxes will be denied the privilege of using the courier service and/or employee mailboxes to disseminate information. Payroll deduction services shall be available to employee organizations, including charitable contributions through the DeKalb School Employees Foundation, Inc.