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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 E. Term Contracts
Section 21.211. Termination or Suspension
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TX Educ Code § 21.211 (2025)
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Sec. 21.211. TERMINATION OR SUSPENSION. (a) The board of trustees may terminate a term contract and discharge a teacher at any time for:
(1) good cause as determined by the board; or
(2) a financial exigency that requires a reduction in personnel.
(b) For a good cause, as determined by the board, the board of trustees may suspend a teacher without pay for a period not to extend beyond the end of the school year:
(1) pending discharge of the teacher; or
(2) in lieu of terminating the teacher.
(c) A teacher who is not discharged after being suspended without pay pending discharge is entitled to back pay for the period of suspension.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.
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