Santa Clara County Grand Jury
• 2009-2010
Achieving School District Efficiency Through Consolidation,
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Note: Missing finding numbers detected: F5, F6
Findings and Recommendations 5 findings
F1
Per the Districts' current CBAs, internal applicants are given priority over external applicants who may be better qualified for thejob. Lakeside Joint School District disagrees with this finding. Our current eBA is silent on preference to internal applicants.
Related Recommendations (1)
R1
Each Board should revisit this subject infuture CBA negotiations to ensure that competency is the determinant factor in thejob candidate selection process. Not Applicable.
F2
The PAUSD utilizes aprocess that requires teacher job applicants to teach demonstration lessons which are subsequently scored by a qualified review team. Thescores are utilized as significant factors in hiring decisions. Lakeside Joint School District agrees that PAUSD utilizes this process, but only partially agrees that it is the best method to determine successful future teachers.
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R2
All Districts should consider adopting interview practices like PAUSD which provide opportunities for applicants to demonstrate their teaching skills. The recommendation will not be implemented because it isnot warranted or reasonable. Applicants have demonstrated their teaching skills in student teaching or previous teaching assignments. Qualified judges of their performance are called for reference checks to verify their skills. This can additionally slow the process of hiring and cause well qualified candidates to go elsewhere.
F3
Twenty-two of the 32 Districts have policies covering the hiring of employee and Board member relatives. Lakeside Joint School District agrees with this finding.
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R3
All Boards should formulate and implement policies covering the hiring of relatives, including the disclosure of anyfamilial relationships to the Board, to avoid the appearance ofbias orfavoritism in the recruitment andjob assignment processes. Lakeside Joint School District operates under BP 4116; Nepotism: Employment of Relatives.
F4
Twenty-two of the 32 Districts do notpermit employees to beplaced in direct reporting relationships to relatives. Thefollowing 10Districts (Berryessa, et al) stated they do not have a written policy regarding the direct supervisory relationship of related employees. Lakeside Joint School District agrees with this finding.
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R4
The Boards of the Districts listed in Finding 4should formulate and implement apolicy prohibiting direct employee supervision of spouses and other relatives. See response to "Recommendation 3"
F7
Only Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union and the Palo Alto Unified Districts responded that they ask about familial relationships on theirjob applications. Lakeside Joint School District agrees with this finding.
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R7
All Boards should implement measures to identifYfamilial relationships during the hiring process. The recommendation requires further analysis because we use an on-line application service, EdJoin, which many of the districts in California currently use.
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Lakeside Joint
School District