Sec. 11. If a teacher loses the teacher’s job in a special education cooperative due to:

(1) a reduction in services of;

Terms Used In Indiana Code 20-35-5-11

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
(2) a reorganization of;

(3) the discontinuance of; or

(4) a withdrawal in whole or in part of a participating school corporation from;

the special education cooperative, the teacher shall be added to the recall list of laid off teachers that is maintained by the participating school corporations, and the teacher shall be employed under the terms of the recall provisions of the participating school corporations for a special education job opening that occurs in any of the participating school corporations. In addition and during the time the former special education cooperative teacher is entitled to remain on the recall list, all teachers in the participating school corporation other than the former special education cooperative teacher retain all rights and privileges for job openings for which the other teachers are qualified and as granted by the collective bargaining agreement in effect at the participating school corporation or, if no provisions of a collective bargaining agreement govern the rights and privileges, by the policy of the governing body, including provisions governing layoffs and recall.

[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-1-6-20(e).]

As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.19.