New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 6 - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION › Chapter 66 - SCHOOL PERSONNEL - CONTRACTS › Part 4 - REQUIREMENTS FOR SABBATICAL LEAVE AND SABBATICAL LEAVE CONTRACTS › Section 6.66.4.9 - SABBATICAL LEAVE CONTRACT

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. The
				board of education of _________________________________________, New Mexico,
				hereinafter referred to as board, and
				____________________________________________________, certified (licensed)
				employee, herein referred to as employee, agree:
(1) Employee desires to take a sabbatical
				leave for the purposes of study or travel related to employee's duties. The
				program of study or travel proposed by employee, a copy of which is attached as
				exhibit I, his been reviewed and approved by the board.
(2) The board desires that employee be
				granted the sabbatical leave because the employee's sabbatical leave program
				has been shown to be related to the employee's duties and to be of direct
				benefit to the school district. A copy of the statement of the superintendent
				of the ___________ school district explaining how the employee's program is
				related to employee's duties and how it will directly benefit the school
				district is attached is exhibit II.
(3) The term of this contract shall be from
				__________________, _______ to ________________, ______.
(4) The parties certify that the employee has
				completed ____ years of continuous service in a certified capacity as an
				employee of the ______________ school district.
(5) Employee agrees that upon completion of
				the sabbatical leave period herein provided, employee will return to (his)
				(her) duties with the _______________ school district for two (2) years
				following the leave. If employee fails to fulfill this requirement, employee
				agrees to repay in full to the school district the salary received during the
				period of leave, such repayment being liquidated damages for breach of the
				contract.
(6) Upon return to the
				school system on completion of the sabbatical leave period, employee will be
				placed in an equivalent or better position by the board.
(7) The board will treat the sabbatical leave
				period as part of the employee's length of service in the computation of future
				length of service increments, if the board provides for such increments in its
				salary schedule.
(8) During the
				period of leave the employee may continue participation in the education
				retirement plan by making appropriate contributions as agreed by the board and
				the educational retirement board.
(9) The board agrees to pay the employee an
				amount equal to ____ per cent of employee's regular salary, said payment to be
				made in the following manner: [Use one of the following:]
(a) one-half (1/2) to be paid at the end of
				the first year after return and one-half (1/2) at the end of the second year
				after return; OR
(b) during the
				term of the leave upon the furnishing of security satisfactory to the board
				assuring the employee's remaining in the system for two (2) years after the
				leave or repayment to the school district of the salary received during the
				period of leave.