SB2629 - Tennessee: Education

Companion Bill HB2545. Education - Reserves the power to determine a teacher's fitness for reemployment for the director of schools; requires director to act in accordance with board policy and any locally negotiated agreement. - Amends TCA Section 49-5-511. Fiscal Summary for SB2629 / *HB2545MINIMAL Bill Summary for SB2629 / *HB2545 Present law allows a local board of education to dismiss any teacher if it becomes necessary to reduce the number of teaching positions due to a decrease in enrollment or for other good reasons. A tenured teacher who has been dismissed under such circumstances must be placed on a preferred list for reemployment in the first vacancy the teacher is qualified by training and experience to fill. The board has the power to determine the fitness of such teacher for reemployment in such vacancy on the basis of the board's evaluation [...]

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