1200 - STAFF ETHICS

The proper performance of school business and administration of an effective educational program requires the services of individuals of integrity, high ideals, and human understanding. To maintain and promote these essentials, the Governing Board expects all administrators to maintain high standards in their working relationships, provide professional leadership in the ESC and community, and in the performance of their duties, to:

1. recognize basic dignities of all individuals with whom they interact in the performance of duties;
2. represent accurately their qualifications;
3. exercise due care to protect the mental and physical safety of students, colleagues, and subordinates;
4. seek and apply the knowledge and skills appropriate to assigned responsibilities;
5. keep in confidence legally confidential information;
6. pledge that their actions and/or those of another on their behalf are not made with specific intent of advancing private economic interests;
7. refuse to accept anything of value offered by another for the purpose of influencing judgment;
8. refuse to accept compensation from any other source, other than the Governing Board, for the performance of his/her official duties, any other act or service in his/her public capacity, for the general performance of the duties of his/her public employment, or as a supplement to his/her public compensation; and
9. refrain from using his/her position or public property or permitting another person to use an employee’s position or public property for partisan political or religious purposes. (This shall in no way limit constitutionally or legally protected rights as a citizen.)

In addition, the Governing Board believes that each administrator should maintain standards of exemplary professional conduct by:

1. making the well-being of students the fundamental value of all decision making and actions;
2. fulfilling professional responsibilities with honesty and integrity;
3. supporting the principle of due process and protecting the civil and human rights of all individuals;
4. obeying local, State, and national laws;
5. implementing the Governing Board’s policies, rules, and regulations;
6. pursuing appropriate measure to correct those laws, policies, and regulations that are not consistent with sound educational goals;
7. avoiding the use of his/her position for personal gain through political, social, religious, economic, or other influences;
8. accepting academic degrees or professional certification only from duly accredited institutions;
9. maintaining the standards and seeking to improve the effectiveness of the profession through research and continuing professional development; and
10. honoring all contracts until fulfillment, release or dissolution mutually agreed upon by all parties to the contract.

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