Source: http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/342.905?highlight=183.500
Timestamp: 2013-05-18 13:51:05
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ORS 342.905 - Appeal procedure - 2011 Oregon Revised Statutes
2011 ORS § 342.905¹
(1) If the district school board dismisses the teacher or does not extend the contract of the contract teacher, the teacher or the teachers representative may appeal that decision to the Fair Dismissal Appeals Board established under ORS 342.930 (Fair Dismissal Appeals Board) by depositing by certified mail addressed to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and a copy to the superintendent of the school district:
(a) In the case of dismissal, within 10 days, as provided in ORS 174.120 (Computation of time), after receipt of notice of the district school boards decision, notice of appeal with a brief statement giving the reasons for the appeal.
(c) The Department of Education, at the departments expense, shall provide to the panel appropriate professional and other special assistance reasonably required to conduct a hearing. The panel shall be empowered, on behalf of the contract teacher, the district superintendent and the district school board, to subpoena and swear witnesses and to require witnesses to give testimony and produce relevant evidence at or prior to the hearing.
(e) In a case pending before a panel that involves a teachers performance at an Oregon Youth Authority facility, the panel assigned to the case may submit to the Director of the Oregon Youth Authority written questions that the panel unanimously agrees are relevant to the case. The director shall respond to the panels questions in writing within 20 days of the directors receipt of the questions from the panel. If a question by the panel seeks information that is not confidential or privileged under Oregon or federal law, the director shall provide the information requested by the panel. If a question by the panel seeks information that is confidential or privileged under Oregon or federal law, the director, in responding to the question, may not disclose the confidential or privileged information but shall instead explain that the information being sought is confidential or privileged. The procedure outlined in this paragraph is not in lieu of any other mechanism that may be available to the panel or parties for obtaining or presenting evidence.
(b) The Fair Dismissal Appeals Board panel shall hold a contested case hearing under ORS chapter 183 within 100 days of the receipt by the teacher of notice of dismissal or of the statement of reasons in the case of contract nonextension. No later than 140 days after the filing of an appeal, consistent with due process, the Fair Dismissal Appeals Board panel shall prepare and send a written decision to the contract teacher, the district superintendent, the district school board and the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The hearing shall be private unless the teacher requests a public hearing. At the hearing, the district and the contract teacher shall have the right to be present and be heard, to be represented by counsel, to present evidence and cross-examine adverse witnesses and to offer evidence that in the panels judgment is relevant to the dispute. The panel may take all reasonable steps to require the parties to conclude the hearing in an expeditious manner.
(10)(a) If both the district board and the teacher or teachers representative agree, arbitration may be used as an alternative to a hearing before a Fair Dismissal Appeals Board panel to determine if the teachers dismissal or nonextension of a contract is in compliance with the standards of ORS 342.805 (Short title) to 342.910 (Waiver of contract grievance claim if appeal of dismissal decision filed). If the teacher or teachers representative desires to use the arbitration procedure, the request for arbitration shall be included in the request for appeal that is filed with the Superintendent of Public Instruction under this section. Within 10 days of the time the superintendent of the district is notified of the teachers intent to appeal the dismissal or nonextension of a contract, the superintendent of the district shall notify the teacher or teachers representative and the Superintendent of Public Instruction as to whether the district has agreed to use the arbitration procedure. If the district determines not to use the arbitration procedure, the hearing procedure shall be continued under this section in the same manner as if no request for arbitration had been made. If the arbitration procedure is used, the teacher has no further rights to a hearing before a Fair Dismissal Appeals Board panel.
(c) In determining whether the district boards dismissal or nonextension of the teacher should be sustained, the arbitrator shall use the same reasons, rules and levels of evidence as are required for the Fair Dismissal Appeals Board under ORS 342.805 (Short title) to 342.910 (Waiver of contract grievance claim if appeal of dismissal decision filed). [1965 c.608 §12; 1971 c.570 §8; 1973 c.298 §6; 1973 c.612 §14; 1977 c.223 §1; 1977 c.400 §5; 1977 c.881 §6; 1979 c.668 §4; 1987 c.663 §2; 1993 c.236 §1; 1993 c.237 §1; 1993 c.778 §28; 1997 c.864 §13; 2001 c.449 §1; 2003 c.798 §4]
Where facts relied upon by school board to dismiss teacher were found by Fair Dismissal Appeals Board to be true, Board may not reverse school board ac­tion unless no reasonable school board could have regarded facts as sufficient to support statutory grounds for dismissal. Lincoln County School Dist. v. Mayer, 39 Or App 99, 591 P2d 755 (1979), Sup Ct review denied; Bergerson v. Salem-Keizer School District, 194 Or App 301, 95 P3d 215 (2004), affd 341 Or 401, 144 P3d 918 (2006)
Fair Dismissal Appeal Board could, under this sec­tion, consider letter not included in state­ment of charges against peti­tioner as addi­tional facts developed at hearing. Keene v. Creswell School Dist. No. 40, 56 Or App 801, 643 P2d 407 (1982)
Where Fair Dismissal Appeals Board finds that at least some of facts relied upon by school district are true and substantiated and support cited grounds for dismissal, board is limited to affirming or reversing dismissal. Bergerson v. Salem-Keizer School District, 194 Or App 301, 95 P3d 215 (2004), affd 341 Or 401, 144 P3d 918 (2006)