| Purpose
The Board recognizes and encourages the right of its employees,
as citizens, to engage in political activity. However, school property
and school time, paid for by all people, may not be used for political
purposes.
Guidelines
The Board adopts the following guidelines for those classified
staff members who intend to engage in political activities.
- No employees, when performing assigned duties, shall engage in
political activities upon property under the jurisdiction of the
Board.
- Political circulars or petitions may not be posted or distributed
in schools or district vehicles.
- The collection of and/or the solicitation for campaign funds
or campaign workers is prohibited on school property.
- The use of pupils for writing or addressing political materials
or the distribution of such materials to or by pupils is forbidden.
District employees who hold elective or appointive offices are not
entitled to time off from their school duties for reasons incident
to such offices, except as such time may qualify under the leave policies
of the Board.
The following situations are exempt from the provisions of this policy:
- to discuss and to study politics and political issues, when such
discussion and study are appropriate to classroom studies, such
as history, current events, and political science, on an equal time
basis where partisan politics is concerned.
- to conduct student elections and campaigning connected therewith.
- to conduct employee representative elections.
Violations of any of the foregoing may constitute cause for disciplinary
action, which may include dismissal. |