Rationale:  School District 622 – North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale shall provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants for school district employment and school district employees.

Rationale: School District 622 – North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale shall provide a fair employment setting for all persons and shall comply with state and federal law.

Rationale: The purpose of this policy is to achieve the effective operation of the school district’s programs through the cooperation of all employees under a system of policies and rules applied fairly and uniformly.

Rationale:  The purpose of this policy is to maintain a safe and healthful environment in the school district in order to promote the physical, social, and psychological well-being of its students.  To that end, the school district will seek a criminal history background check for applicants who receive an offer of employment with the school district and on all individuals who are offered the opportunity to provide athletic coaching services or other extracurricular academic coaching services to the school district, regardless of whether any compensation is paid, or such other background checks as provided by this policy.  The school district may also elect to do background checks of other volunteers, independent contractors, and student employees in the school district.

Rationale: The purpose of this policy is to comply with the Minnesota Veterans Preference Act (VPA) which provides preference points for veterans applying for employment with political subdivisions, including school districts, as well as additional rights for veterans in the discharge process.

Rationale:  School District 622 – North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale shall provide guidance to school district employees as to the data the school district collects and maintains regarding its personnel.

Rationale:  School District 622 – North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale shall provide school district employees a place of employment and conditions of employment free from recognized hazards that are likely to cause death or serious injury or harm. (Minn. Stat. § 182.653, Subd. 2)

Rationale:  The purpose of this policy is to protect the privacy rights of school district employees and students under both state and federal law when requested to testify or provide educational records for a judicial or administrative proceeding.

Rationale: The purpose of this policy is to identify and reserve the proprietary rights of the school district to certain publications, instructional materials, inventions, and creations which employees may develop or create, or assist in developing and creating, while employed by the school district.

Rationale: School District 622 – North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale shall provide for family and medical leave to school district employees in accordance with the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) and also with parenting leave under state law.

Rationale:  The district shall identify school district business expenses that involve initial payment by an employee and qualify for reimbursement from the school district, and to specify the manner by which the employee seeks reimbursement.

Rationale:  School District 622 – North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale shall maintain a learning and working environment that is free from harassment and violence on the basis of race, color creed, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, familial status, status with regard to public assistance, sexual orientation, or disability.

Rationale:  The purpose of this policy is to make clear the statutory requirements of school personnel to report suspected child neglect or physical or sexual abuse.

Rationale:  The purpose of this policy is to make clear the statutory requirements of school personnel to report suspected maltreatment of vulnerable adults.

Rationale: The school board recognizes the significant problems created by drug and alcohol use in society in general, and the public schools in particular.  The school board further recognizes the important contribution that the public schools have in shaping the youth of today into the adults of tomorrow.

     The school board believes that a work environment free of drug and alcohol use will be not only safer, healthier, and more productive but also more conducive to effective learning.  Therefore, to provide such an environment, the purpose of this policy is to provide authority so that the school board may require all employees and/or job applicants to submit to drug and alcohol testing in accordance with the provisions of this policy and as provided in federal law and Minn. Stat. §§ 181.950-181.957.

Rationale:  School District 622 – North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale recognizes that chemical use and abuse constitutes a grave threat to the physical and mental well-being of students and employees and significantly impedes the learning process.  Chemical use and abuse also creates significant problems for society in general.  The school board believes that the public school has a role in education, intervention, and prevention of chemical use and abuse.  The purpose of this policy is to assist the school district in its goal to prevent chemical use and abuse by providing procedures for education and intervention.

Rationale:  School District 622 – North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale shall maintain a safe and healthful environment for employees and students by prohibiting the use of alcohol, toxic substances, medical cannabis, and controlled substances without a physician’s prescription.

Rationale:  School District 622 – North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale shall maintain a learning and working environment that is tobacco-free.

Rationale:  Public concern that students and staff of the school district be able to attend the schools of the district without becoming infected with serious communicable or infectious diseases, including but not limited to, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Hepatitis B, and Tuberculosis, requires that the school board adopt measures effectively responding to health concerns while respecting the rights of all students, employees, and contractors, including those who are so infected. The purpose of this policy is to adopt such measures.

Rationale: The purpose of this policy is to avoid the appearance of impropriety or the appearance of a conflict of interest with respect to gifts given to school district employees and school board members.

Rationale: The school district is committed to an educational environment in which all students are treated with respect and dignity.  Every school district employee is to provide students with appropriate guidance, understanding, and direction while maintaining a standard of professionalism and acting within accepted standards of conduct.

Rationale:  The purpose of this policy is to establish a staff development program and structure to carry out planning and reporting on staff development that supports improved student learning.

Rationale: The purpose of this policy is to establish general parameters for determining the workload limits of special education staff who provide services to children with disabilities receiving direct special education services 60 percent or less of the instructional day.

Rationale:  School District 622 recognizes that today’s society is different from previous generations.  Cell phones play an important part in employee and student safety and communications. 

Rationale:  The purpose of this policy is to provide a respectful workplace for all District 622 employees