Tulsa Public Schools Policy 4204: Employee Probation

PURPOSE: To define probationary time limits.

All first-term appointments to any teaching position shall be probationary for a period of three years. Any former employee returning to a teaching position will begin a new three-year period of probation.

A temporary contract teacher who works a complete school year and is reemployed without interruption will have that year of service count as one of the three probationary years.

All new support employees, or permanent support employees appointed to new positions, will be on probation for one year from the date of hire or appointment.

Issued (as regulation): November 1982
Adopted (as policy): February 2005
Revised: March 2005
Cross Reference: 4206, Evaluation of Staff

Policy 4204