What Do I Need to Know Before Applying?
Residency Requirement
Chicago Board of Education Amends Residency
On October 27, 2004, the Chicago Board of Education amended Residency Policy
01-0425-PO2 for all employees. The purpose of this fact sheet is to outline
the requirements of the residency policy. If there are any inconsistencies
between this fact sheet and the policy, the policy controls.
The Chicago Board of Education's residency policy was established to:
- Enhance the quality of performance of duties by employees who, as
residents of the City, have an increased personal stake in the progress
of the Chicago Public Schools and more awareness of conditions existing
in the system.
- Increase the likelihood that employees residing in the City will have
contact with community leaders and citizens through public school and
community activities.
- Minimize absenteeism and tardiness among employees.
- Provide economic benefits to the school system from local expenditure
of salaries and the payment of local sales and real estate taxes.
Exemptions to the Residency Policy for Special Needs
Areas
Newly hired teachers of the CPS for the 2008 - 2009 school year and who
are certified/endorsed in subject areas deemed special needs may apply for
a waiver to the residency policy, provided they are hired to teach in a
special needs area of education. Such individuals must complete and submit
applications for exemptions to the residency policy within 31 calendar days
of their dates of hire. If granted, exemptions will be valid for three (3)
academic years after the employee's date of hire and may be renewed for
subsequent three (3) year periods, provided that the employees continue
to be employed in a special needs position.
The current areas of education assessed as special needs are:
- Special Education Teachers
- Mathematics Teachers
- Science Teachers
- Librarians
- Guidance Counselors
- School Nurses
- Reading Teachers
- Bilingual Teachers
- Physical Education Teachers
- School Psychologists
- Speech Pathologists
- ROTC
- Sign Language Interpreters
- Occupational & Physical Therapists
- Health Service Nurses
- World Language (Exclusively: Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Latin, Farsi)
Important Points:
- Only individuals qualified for and hired to teach in assessed special
needs areas may apply for exemptions to the residency policy. Application
for a residency waiver must be made within 31 calendar days of the date
of hire with the CPS.
- Exemptions to the residency policy are valid for three (3) academic
years after the employee's date of hire and may be renewed for subsequent
three (3) year periods, provided that the employees continue to be employed
in a special needs position.
- To renew exemptions, teachers must submit a request for renewal to
the Department of Human Resources no later than thirty-one (31) calendar
days prior to the expiration date of their current waiver.
- Teachers who voluntarily transfer from their current special
needs position to a non-special needs position during the current waiver
period must become an actual resident of the City of Chicago within
six (6) months from the effective date of transfer.
- Teachers who involuntarily transfer from their current special
needs position to a non-special needs position during the current waiver
period, the remainder of the waiver period shall not be affected. However,
to receive a renewal of the waiver, the teacher must be in a position
considered a special needs area at the time of renewal.
- By May of each year, the Board will reassess which areas are still
considered special needs. Exemptions will be granted only for those
areas. The Board will not renew exemptions for job categories no longer
assessed to be in special needs areas. Teachers who have been granted
a waiver in a job category no longer deemed as special needs, their
waiver period shall not be affected. However, to receive a renewal of
the waiver, the teacher must be in a position considered a special needs
area at the time of renewal.
- Teachers whose exemptions are not renewed will be required to establish
residency in Chicago within six (6) months of their waiver expiration
date.
- The Board reserves the right to assign teachers receiving residency
waivers to schools or programs with vacancies in the teachers' areas
of certification.
Click here to download the Residency
Policy Waiver Form. Note: This form is available in the Portable Document
Format (PDF). Download the free Acrobat
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For more information regarding residency waivers for teaching in assessed
special needs areas, contact the Department of Human Resources at 773-553-1188.
Click here
to obtain a copy of Residency Policy 06-0726-PO3. |
