As published in the Record Journal, Sunday, July 14, 2013
By Eric Vo
Record-Journal staff
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WALLINGFORD - The Board of Education plans to hire seven new clerks to prepare for the increased workload expected with the rollout of the new teacher evaluation program and a revised student attendance policy.
Moses Y. Beach School, Cook Hill School, Highland School, Parker Farms School, Pond Hill School and E.C. Stevens School will each get an additional clerk, School Superintendent Salvatore Menzo said.
“This was to help with the implementation of the new truancy and tardy policy and teacher evaluations,” said Menzo. “It’s a lot of paperwork ... Timelines are such a key part to the evaluations. There’s the clerical aspect of getting them printed, signed and mailed in an appropriate time frame.”
The clerks will be paid between $17.41 and $21.55 an hour. They will work 10 months a year and work 37½ hours a week.
Since the clerk position is considered a classified service, the Board of Education has to hire from a list of people who scored high enough on a test provided by the town, according to Terence Sullivan, the town’s personnel director.
The tests are tailored to the position being sought. For example, if a job requires knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel, the applicants will take a test to determine if they’re proficient in those computer programs, Sullivan said.
“We have a whole range of tests,” he said. “They’re based on the job descriptions and job requirements.”
The names of the top five scorers are provided to the appropriate hiring authority. The list of names is good for two years.
“The town offers a test and whoever sat for that test and scored a certain level, that’s where we can start hiring from,” Menzo said. “If we exhaust that list, we have to potentially give another test.”
The goal is to have the clerks hired and in place at each of the seven elementary schools by the first day of school, Menzo said.
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