§ 45223 Small District Classified Hiring

• •Small school districts (with fewer than 3,000 students) can choose to follow special rules for their non-teaching staff (like janitors or bus drivers).
• •The school board must vote and agree to use these rules.
• •They have to pick a date to start using these rules, and it can’t be later than July 1 of the next year.

A small school district with 2,500 students wants to change how they handle vacation time for their bus drivers.

The school board can vote to use the special rules in Article 6. If they vote yes, they must pick a start date for these rules, like June 1, and it can’t be later than July 1 of next year.