Personnel Transfers and Releases

This procedure outlines the transfer procedure for teachers and assistant principals. This procedure does not limit the Board's right, through the delegation of authority to the Superintendent, to effect a transfer of an employee to any other location/position under the jurisdiction of the Board of Education.

The Associate Superintendent of Human Resources and Talent Management will establish the transfer process timeline each year. Employees may request to be released from their contract of employment by submitting a written request to their immediate supervisor. The Superintendent or his/her designee is authorized to accept, on behalf of the Board, resignations from employment by any employee in accordance with Policy GBO.

Eligibility

Teachers and assistant principals who will have completed three consecutive full and contractual years in their current schools by the end of the current school year– or were involuntarily transferred to their current schools – may request a transfer. (Involuntary transfers would include teachers and assistant principals who were involuntarily moved as a result of redistricting, opening a new school, or reduction in staffing allocation.)

Teachers and assistant principals hired after the first work day of the current year are not eligible to participate in the transfer process.

Teachers and assistant principals who are currently on Professional Development Plans (PDPs) or received an overall Ineffective, Needs Development, or Unsatisfactory evaluation are not eligible to participate in the transfer.

Regular education or special education teachers with less than three years in their current schools may apply for a transfer to positions in moderate/severe/profound intellectual disabilities, self-contained autistic, and self-contained EBD. This exception does not apply to teachers requesting transfers within these fields.

Teachers and assistant principals administratively placed must complete three consecutive full and contractual years before being eligible for a voluntary transfer.

A teacher offered a head coaching position at another school may also apply for a transfer to the school where the head coaching assignment is located. The three year rule does not apply for head coaching positions. A teacher may accept a coaching assignment at another school, however, a teacher may not transfer to said school outside of the transfer process.

Transfer Procedures and Timelines

Transfer requests for the next school year will be accepted during the placement preference time frame established by the Division of Human Resources and Talent Management. The transfer process is for lateral transfers only (i.e., assistant principal-to-assistant principal or teacher-to-teacher). Teachers and assistant principals who want to request a lateral transfer to a different location for the next school year must complete the approved Placement Preference Process Form. The following procedures will be followed:

Eligible teachers and assistant principals who desire a transfer to a new location must submit the Placement Preference Form prior to the announced deadline.
Teachers and assistant principals who have requested a transfer will be considered for any vacancy for which they are qualified, up to the announced deadline.
It is the responsibility of the principal at the requested school to respond to the teacher or assistant principal applying for the transfer.