2006 Alabama Code - Section 16-24-8 — Cancellation of contracts - Grounds.

Cancellation of an employment contract with a teacher on continuing service status may be made for incompetency, insubordination, neglect of duty, immorality, failure to perform duties in a satisfactory manner, justifiable decrease in the number of teaching positions or other good and just cause, but cancellation may not be made for political or personal reasons.

(Acts 1939, No. 499, p. 759, § 6; Code 1940, T. 52, §358; Acts 1953, No. 773, p. 1040, § 1; Act 2000-733, p. 1588, §9.)