SB2843 - Tennessee: Education, Salaries And Benefits, School Boards

Companion Bill HB2971. Education - Specifies that teachers lose benefits of sick leave bank by submitting false medical information to sick leave bank trustees. - Amends TCA Title 49. Fiscal Summary for *SB2843 / HB2971Decrease Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *SB2843 / HB2971 ON APRIL 24, 2008, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 2971, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill. Present law requires a local education agency (LEA) to develop, adopt and implement a differentiated pay plan under guidelines established by the state board of education and in accordance with present law to aid in staffing hard to staff subject areas and schools and in hiring and retaining highly qualified teachers. The plan must be reviewed and evaluated annually to consider any change in circumstances [...]

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