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2025 Texas Statutes
Education Code
Title 2 - Public Education
Subtitle D - Educators and School District Employees and Volunteers
Chapter 21 - Educators
Subchapter D. Continuing Contracts
Section 21.158. Notice Under Continuing Contract
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TX Educ Code § 21.158 (2025)
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Sec. 21.158. NOTICE UNDER CONTINUING CONTRACT. (a) Before a teacher employed under a continuing contract may be discharged, suspended without pay, or released because of a necessary reduction of personnel, the board of trustees must notify the teacher in writing of the proposed action and the grounds for the action.
(b) A teacher who is discharged or suspended without pay for actions related to the inability or failure of the teacher to perform assigned duties is entitled, as a matter of right, to a copy of each evaluation report or any other written memorandum that concerns the fitness or conduct of the teacher, by requesting in writing a copy of those documents.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.
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