12/6/2010 SCHOOL COMMITTEE Minutes

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File: GBCA DRAFT STAFF ETHICS / CONFLICT OF INTEREST The School Committee expects members of its professional staff to be familiar with the code of ethics that applies to their profession and to adhere to it in their relationships with students, parents, co-workers, and officials of the school system. No employee of the Committee will engage in or have a financial interest in, directly or indirectly, any activity that conflicts or raises a reasonable question of conflict with his duties and responsibilities in the school system. Nor will any staff member engage in any type of private business during school time or on school property. Employees will not engage in work of any type where information concerning customer, client, or employer originates from any information available to them through school sources . Moreover, as there should be no conflict of interest in the supervision and evaluation of employees, at no time may any administrator be responsible for the supervision and/or evaluation of an employee related to him/her. As provided in MGL C. 71, 567, the school district shall neither (i) employ a member of the immediate family of a superintendent, central office administrator, or school committee member, nor (ii) assign a member of the immediate family of a supervisor as an employee of the supervisor unless written notice is given to the school committee of the proposal to employ or assign such person at least two weeks in advance of such person' s employment or assignment. Immediate family includes parents, children, brother, sister, grandparents or relatives in the immediate household. The Conflict of Interest law provides further that a public official may not hire, or participate in any way in the hiring or delegate authority to a subordinate in the hiring, of an immediate family member. LEGAL REFS . : M.G.L. 71 : 52 ; 268A: 1 et seq. SOURCE: MASC Policy [S. C. 6/8/89, 9/5/96, 5/5/04]