(105 ILCS 5/24-13.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 24-13.1)
Sec. 24-13.1.
Contractual continued service of teachers employed in
Department of Defense
overseas dependents' schools.
By mutual agreement of a teacher and the employing board, the board may,
but is not required to, grant the teacher a leave of absence to accept
employment in a Department of Defense overseas dependents' school. If such
a leave of absence is granted, the teacher may elect, for a period not
exceeding the lesser of the period for which he is so employed or 5 years,
(a) to preserve his contractual continued service status under this Act,
and (b) to continue receipt, on the same basis as if he were teaching in
the school system subject to the employing board, of service credit earned
for requirements of promotion, incremental increases in salary, leaves of
absence and other privileges based on an established period of service or
employment.
In addition, a teacher whose armed forces reserve unit is activated
during the school year and who as a result is required to enter into active
military service duty shall continue to have his or her full salary as a
teacher paid by the school board for the first 2 weeks of the period during which he or
she is required to remain on active military service duty; provided,
however, that if the teacher is required to remain on active military
service duty for any additional period, his or her contractual continued
service under this Act shall be preserved, and he or she shall continue to
receive throughout the entire period that he or she is required to remain
on active military service duty, on the same basis as if he or she were
teaching in the school system governed by the employing board, service
credit earned for requirements of promotion, incremental increases in
salary, leaves of absence and other privileges based on an established
period of service or employment; provided further that a teacher who
receives payment of his or her full
salary as a teacher for the first 2 weeks of the period his or her armed
forces reserve unit
is required to remain on active military service duty shall return to the
school board such portion of his or her teaching salary so paid as is equal
to the payment he or she received for such 2 week period from his or her armed
forces reserve unit, excluding, however, all payments received by the teacher
from the armed forces reserve unit which are allocable to nonschool days
or which constitute a travel, meal or housing allowance.
A person employed to replace a teacher making the election provided for
in this Section does not acquire contractual continued service status as a
teacher under this Article.
(Source: P.A. 84-1401.)
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