TENNESSEE

It's a tough job.

Sept 7, 2007 - Hamilton County Board of Education and the teachers’ union reached an agreement so that administrators can accrue 210 days of vacation.

Unlike the previously unlimited vacation accrual policy, the new proposal states that school administrators who accrue vacation may continue to do so only until they have reached a 1,680-hour cap. Longtime employees who already are at or near that cap can continue accruing 50 percent of their vacation for a three-year period beginning July 1, 2008.

North Brunswick, NEW JERSEY

School districts, by law in New Jersey, pay legal fees for public employees found innocent.

Mar 29, 2007 - A former gym teacher who was found not guilty in the late 1990s after three females alleged official misconduct and attempted sexual contact during his term, pleaded guilty to a count of coercion. He was "charged on a count related to sexual misconduct." [No explanation given.]

In the late 1990s, he was involved in "intensive litigation involving indictments brought down from the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office and a grand jury." Due to a difference in burden of proof, he was found responsible for his actions in the civil proceedings.

As a result, tenure charges were filed against him, which were compromised, [no explanation] and he was asked not to return to the school district.

Although he sued the district for $325,000 in legal fees and $100,000 in back pay, only $150,000 was paid because due to state law, a public employee charged with a criminal offense who is found innocent is required to have their legal fees paid back by the district, according to Vignuolo.

TT - Emphasis and puzzlement ours.