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O: ASSISTANCE IN ASSAULT CASES 1. Principals shall immediately report orally all cases of assault suffered by teachers in connection with their employment to the Superintendent and in writing within 24 hours. 2. Whenever it is alleged that a teacher has assaulted a person or that a person has assaulted a teacher, the principal and Superintendent shall conduct an investigation of the incident. The Superintendent shall comply with any reasonable request from the teacher for relevant information in the Committee's possession not privileged under law concerning the person or persons involved. 3. The District may indemnify a teacher in its employ for expenses or damages sustained by him/her by reason of an action or claim against him/her arising out of the negligence of such teacher or other act by him/her resulting in accidental damages to or destruction of property while acting as a teacher, and may indemnify a teacher in its employ for expenses or damages sustained by him/her by reason of an action or claim against him/her arising out of any other acts done by him/her while acting as such teacher; provided: in either case, that after investigation, it may appear to the Committee that such teacher was, at the tune the cause of action or claim arose, acting within the scope of his/her employment and provided further that the defense settlement of any action or claim for which indemnification is sought under this provision shall have been made by the City Solicitor upon the request of the Committee or if the City Solicitor fails or refuses to defend such action or claim, by an attorney named by the Committee or by an attorney employed by such teacher. The Committee shall appropriate funds for this purpose in the same manner as appropriations for general school purposes. P: ITINERANT TEACHERS 1. Itinerant teachers will not be used to cover classes in place of substitutes except in an emergency and subject to Article II, Section C. 2. Itinerant teachers will be given non-instructional duties in the school where they spend the major portion of their time consistent with the regular duties assigned to teaching personnel in that building. These duties are not to deny a teacher time for lunch or time to arrive at the next assignment. |
