§ 1981. Definitions
As used in this chapter unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) “Administrator” means any person so licensed by the Vermont Standards Board for professional
educators, the majority of whose employed time in a school or a school district is
devoted to serving as superintendent, assistant superintendent, assistant to the superintendent,
supervisor, principal, or assistant principal.
(2) “Professional negotiations” means the meeting, conferring, consulting, discussing,
and negotiating in good faith between a school board negotiations council and a teachers’
organization negotiations council or an administrators’ organization negotiations
council to reach agreement.
(3) “School board” means the board of school directors of a school district or its equivalent
in any independent elementary or secondary school.
(4) “School district” means any public school district or any independent elementary or
secondary school within the State that directly or indirectly receives support from
public funds.
(5) “Teacher” means any person licensed employable as a teacher by the Vermont Standards
Board for Professional Educators who is not an administrator as defined in this section.
(6) A “teachers’ organization” or an “administrators’ organization” means an organization,
committee, council, group, or separate unit thereof in which teachers or administrators
participate and that exists, in whole or in part, for the purpose of professional
negotiation.
(7) “Agency fee” means a fee deducted by an employer from the salary or wages of an employee
who is not a member of an employee organization, which is paid to the employee organization
that is the exclusive bargaining agent for the bargaining unit of the employee. The
agency fee shall not exceed 85 percent of the amount payable as dues by members of
the employee organization and shall be deducted in the same manner as dues are deducted
from the salary or wages of members of the employee organization and shall be used
to defray the costs of chargeable activities.
(8) “School board negotiations council” means, for a supervisory district, its school
board, and, for school districts within a supervisory union or board of cooperative
education services, the body comprising representatives designated by each school
board within the supervisory union or board of cooperative education services and
by the supervisory union board or board of cooperative education services to engage
in professional negotiations with a teachers’ or administrators’ organization.
(9) “Teachers’ organization negotiations council” or “administrators’ organization negotiations
council” means the body comprising representatives designated by each teachers’ organization
or administrators’ organization within a supervisory district, supervisory union,
or board of cooperative education services to act as its representative for professional
negotiations. (Added 1969, No. 127, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1969; amended 1989, No. 118, § 3; 1991, No. 24, § 11; 2005, No. 25, § 1; 2005, No. 214 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; eff. July 1, 2007; 2007, No. 82, § 29; 2009, No. 153 (Adj. Sess.), § 13; 2013, No. 37, § 10; 2013, No. 56, § 24, eff. May 30, 2013; 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 304, eff. Feb. 14, 2014; 2017, No. 74, § 22; 2019, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 89; 2023, No. 168 (Adj. Sess.), § 9, eff. July 1, 2024.)