2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 59 - Education
CHAPTER 25 - TEACHERS
SECTION 59-25-410. Notification of employment for ensuing year; notification of assignment.
On or before April fifteenth of each year, the boards of trustees of the several school districts shall decide and notify, in writing, the teachers, as defined in Section 59-1-130, in their employ concerning their employment for the ensuing year. If the board, or the person designated by it, fails to notify a teacher who has been employed by a school district for a majority of the current school year of his status for the ensuing year, the teacher shall be deemed to be reemployed for the ensuing year and the board shall issue a contract to such teacher as though the board had reemployed such teacher in the usual manner. Notices of intent not to renew an employment contract shall be given in writing no later than April fifteenth of each year.
On or before August fifteenth the superintendent, principal, where applicable, or supervisor shall notify the teacher of his tentative assignment for the ensuing school year.
This section shall not apply to any teacher whose contract of employment or dismissal is under appeal under Section 59-25-450.
For purposes of this article, "teacher" means all employees possessing a professional certificate issued by the State Department of Education, except those employees working pursuant to multi-year contracts.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-361; 1974 (58) 2343; 1976 Act No. 634 Section 1; 1988 Act No. 392, Section 1.
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