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Teachers ask board to separate personal days from sick leave; trustees table proposal for further study
Summary
Members of the districts Personnel Policy Committee (PPC) asked the board to stop deducting personal days from state-mandated sick leave. The board voted to table the policy change and asked district leaders to work with PPC representatives and return the topic to a scheduled work session.
Two teachers representing the Personnel Policy Committee asked the Siloam Springs School District board to change policy 3.11 so that employees receive personal days in addition to, not subtracted from, the 10 state-mandated sick days.
"We're specifically looking at policy 3.11, and our PPC is requesting that the sentence 'all personal days are subtracted from the accrued sick leave days' be removed from that policy," PPC representative Tammy Marie told the board. She and Melody Butler said most Arkansas districts already grant…
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