Employment
18A:26-2 Certificate Required
No teaching staff member shall be
employed in the public schools by
any board of education unless he is a
holder of a valid certificate to teach,
administer, direct or supervise the
teaching, instruction, or educational
guidance of, or to render, administer,
direct, or supervise the rendering
of nursing service to, pupils in such
public schools and of such other
certificate if any, as may be required
by law.
18A:27-2 Employment Without
Certificate Prohibited
Any contract or engagement of any
teaching staff member, shall cease
and determine whenever the employing
board of education shall
ascertain by written notice received
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from the county or city superintendent
of schools, or in any other
manner, that such person is not, or
has ceased to be, the holder of an
appropriate certificate required by
this title for such employment, notwithstanding
that the term of such
employment shall not then have
expired.
18A:27-3 Employment for
School Year
Teaching staff may be employed and
their salaries fixed and determined,
under contracts, by a board of education
for the period from July 1 of
the year in which such board shall
organize to the succeeding June 30,
notwithstanding that the fiscal year
of the district or of the municipality
in which it is located is the calendar
year.
18A:27-3.1 Non-Tenured
Teaching Staff; Observation
and Evaluation; Conference;
Purpose
Every board of education in this
State shall cause each non-tenure
teaching staff member employed by
it to be observed and evaluated in
the performance of his or her duties
at least three times during each
school year but not less than once
during each semester. Said evaluations
are to take place before April
30 each year. The evaluations may
cover that period between April 30
of one year and April 30 of the succeeding
year excepting in the case of
the first year of employment where
the three evaluations must have been
completed prior to April 30. The
number of required observations
and evaluations may be reduced
proportionately when an individual
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