You are entitled to use your accumulated sick days during the time period when you are disabled due to your pregnancy. Your doctor will determine this time period.

You are also able to use sick pool days, if you do not have enough days to carry you through your disability period.

Use this Form Letter 1 to notify the district of your intend to use sick days for your disability period. When you have determined the date you intend to stop work, please verbally inform your principal. No doctor's note is necessary. Contact STA for answers to your questions.

The contract provides for an unpaid leave of absence for child rearing purposes. This leave would commence at the end of the paid disability period (as determined by your doctor after your post delivery check up.) The length of this leave is for a period up to one year from the end of the semester in which the leave of absence begins.

The Family and Medical Leave Act requires the District to continue contributing towards your health, vision and dental insurance for the first 12 weeks of your unpaid leave. You must inform the district of your desire to take advantage of this in your letter requesting an unpaid leave for child rearing purposes. Form Letter 2

All leave of absences must terminate coinciding with the end of a quarterly marking period. Requests for extensions of a leave of absence will be granted at the sole discretion of the Superintendent of Schools. Teachers whose unpaid leave ends on June 30th of the school year are eligible to return to the health, dental, optical and life insurance plans effective July 1.

Please contact Laura Hungershafer at the District Office prior to July 1 to inform her of your intentions regarding your health, dental, optical and life insurances.