Are school districts required to post job openings?

Question

Do Federal EEO or any California statutes require that a school district publicly post a job opening before filling it?

The reason I ask is that a full-time teaching position was made vacant on a Saturday....and the position was offerred to someone on Monday morning.

Thanks in advance.

If you have any specific reasons that the position would need to be filled, that would be great.

I meant to say: if you have specific reasons that the job would need to be posted, let me know. Looking for specific laws or regs...

Answer 1

A school is not like private enterprise.

In private enterprise, if an employee is lost, usually they can go days or even weeks without that person's services. In a school, they need to have replacement teachers immediately, so they need to have a system that works to implement that.

I would expect that the rules are a combination of
* If the school system is under one of the teacher unions, there may be rules regarding job openings first going through the union.
* Most schools have substitute teachers on-call so that if a teacher gets sick, or other disruption, the students do not miss a day of having a qualified teacher there.
* Any employer typically has had thousands of people have applied there for work, so they have thousands of qualified applicants data on file & if there is a new job opening, they might offer to those candidates before doing any advertising of a new job opening.

My parents were teachers at University level. There was a requirement that job openings be posted by the Human Resources Dept, but the Old Boys network made that system meaningless.

What happens is the opening now exists.

HR gets the info, calls the media, gets ad placed. Maybe a month or more after the opening there, people interested in the position see it, send in their resume's to HR dept, so interviews start ... whole process can take months.

Parallel path is that the head of the dept is in touch with peers at other universities, the word gets out about that opening. Some other university says that due to budget cuts they have to let this good person go ... can they get your position? So the head of dept goes to HR dept and ram rods through the acceptance of the person that is wanted to help out peer at another university.

Answer 2

in every district I've been in...YES>

it could be district or state policy...don't know about federal.

I taught in NJ.

Answer 3

They probably did post it with such specialized requirements that only the person who got it had the qualifications.

Answer 4

was it a union job if it was that would have to post it