Any supervisor considering recommending employment termination shall consult with the Associate Superintendent for Human Resources or designee on procedural matters.
The Associate Superintendent for Human Resources or designee recommends terminations to the Superintendent and to the Lincoln Board of Education for approval.
Lincoln Public Schools may give two weeks’ notice prior to the effective date of termination, severance pay in lieu of notice, or choose, in the administration’s discretion (for example, in the event of gross misconduct), to give no advance notice or severance pay.
Nothing in Board policy, administrative regulations or practices, or in any evaluation instrument or in the appraisal process or program for classified or hourly staff shall or is intended to create or be a contract or part of a contract or the contractual agreement between the School District and classified or hourly staff. The School District reserves the right to modify, delete or add to any such items without notice and reserves the right to terminate classified or hourly staff at any time without cause. All classified and hourly staff are at-will employees. All classified and hourly staff may be terminated at any time without cause, without prior disciplinary action, or without progressive discipline, and irrespective of the lack of any formal or informal evaluation or any irregularity in an evaluation instrument or in any aspect of the evaluation process and irrespective of the contents or scores on or of any evaluation. No administrator or other employee of the School District has any authority to enter into any agreement of employment with classified or hourly staff for any specific period of time or to make any agreement contrary to the foregoing.