Kansas Statutes 72-2240. Equal access act
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 72-2240
- Board: means the governing body of any technical college or the institute of technology at Washburn university, and the board of trustees of any community college. See Kansas Statutes 72-2252
- board of education: shall mean the board of education of any public school district. See Kansas Statutes 72-2215
- persons: includes one or more individuals, organizations, associations, corporations, boards, committees, commissions, agencies, or their representatives. See Kansas Statutes 72-2218
- Professional employee: means any person employed by a board of education in a position which requires a certificate issued by the state board of education or employed by a board of education in a professional, educational or instructional capacity, but shall not mean any such person who is an administrative employee and, commencing in the 2006-2007 school year, shall not mean any person who is a retirant from school employment of the Kansas public employees retirement system, regardless of whether an agreement between a board of education and an exclusive representative of professional employees that covers terms and conditions of professional service provides to the contrary. See Kansas Statutes 72-2218
(a) This section shall be known as the equal access act.
(b) A board of education shall not grant access to any professional employee or school employee’s physical or electronic mailboxes to a professional employees’ organization without giving equal access to any other professional employees’ organization which requests such access.
(c) If a professional employees’ organization is permitted to attend new professional employee, other professional employee or school employee orientation meetings in an effort to recruit new members, then any other professional employees’ organization which requests permission to attend the meeting shall be granted such permission.
(d) A board of education shall not designate any day or break in the school calendar by naming or referring to the day or break in school calendar as the name of any professional employees’ organization.
(e) As used in the equal access act, the term “school employee” includes administrative employees, persons who hold student teaching licenses, paraprofessional and any other person employed by a board of education.
(f) The equal access act shall be a part of and supplemental to the professional negotiations act, Kan. Stat. Ann. § 72-2218 et seq., and amendments thereto.