[CALIBK12] Ed Code and Volunteers HOPEFULLY

Thu Jun 5 22:16:11 PDT 2008

I thought I was going crazy, but it's not me-- for some reason the ed code screen I am viewing will not sit tight-- it keeps reverting to the information about p.e. or something.  If you Google the following and click on the first link...that should take you to the ed code about substituting volunteers for laid off classified.  Good Night!!

California Education Code Sections 35021(b) and 35021(c).

Heidi Snively
Library Media Specialist
Grand View Elementary School
Manhattan Beach Unified School District

hsnively at manhattan.k12.ca.us
310-546-8022 x5404

http://www.grandviewlibrary.info/ <http://www.grandviewlibrary.info/> 

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From: Heidi Snively
Sent: Thu 6/5/2008 10:13 PM
To: Heidi Snively; Liana Smith; calibk12 at listproc.sjsu.edu
Subject: RE: [CALIBK12] Ed Code and Volunteers

So sorry-- it is late and I just got back from Open House...here is the correct link that says surplanting classified employees with volunteers is a no-no:
http://law.onecle.com/california/education/35021.html

Heidi Snively
Library Media Specialist
Grand View Elementary School
Manhattan Beach Unified School District

hsnively at manhattan.k12.ca.us
310-546-8022 x5404

http://www.grandviewlibrary.info/ <http://www.grandviewlibrary.info/> 

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From: Heidi Snively
Sent: Thu 6/5/2008 10:10 PM
To: Liana Smith; calibk12 at listproc.sjsu.edu
Subject: RE: [CALIBK12] Ed Code and Volunteers

http://law.onecle.com/california/education/35021.3.html 

When the library positions were reduced in our district a few years ago, I did desire that parent volunteers be allowed to assist me.  I was able to retain the use of volunteers even though my paid employee hours were reduced because I had proof of established past practice of heavy volunteerism in the library by showing all the years of volunteer sign-in sheets.

It certainly is a fine line; on the one hand, if the service is valued and desired, the employee deserves to be retained and paid for the desired service.  On the other hand, who ultimately suffers?  The kids, of course, when the doors of the library are locked, and no one wants to see that.

Heidi Snively
Library Media Specialist
Grand View Elementary School
Manhattan Beach Unified School District

hsnively at manhattan.k12.ca.us
310-546-8022 x5404

http://www.grandviewlibrary.info/ <http://www.grandviewlibrary.info/> 

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From: Liana Smith [mailto:SmithLiana at dublin.k12.ca.us]
Sent: Thu 6/5/2008 3:42 PM
To: calibk12 at listproc.sjsu.edu
Subject: [CALIBK12] Ed Code and Volunteers

The Media Technicians (classified position) in my school district will be reduced next year to some degree or another. It could be anywhere from 1/2 hour per day to 1 1/2 hours per day. Most of the principals are going to request funding from our local parent group (PFC). One principal said he was going to ask parent volunteers to make up the shortage instead of funding it. I mentioned to the Media Tech at that site that we are officially having a layoff of hours and that it is against Ed Code to staff any part of a position with volunteers. Is this correct and where in Ed Code is this addressed? She said that he would need proof of where this is stated.

Thanks so much for the help.

Liana de Wit-Smith
Fallon School (K-8) Library Media Technician
3601 Kohnen Way
Dublin, CA 94568
(925) 875-9376 ext.6308
http://www.dublin.k12.ca.us/Fms/index.htm
"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education"

~ Harold Howe, former Secretary of Education

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