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SS/SCS/SB 125 - This act modifies duties of boards of education. This act requires the State Board of Education to promulgate rules under which the board classifies the public schools of the states. Rules must include standards, appropriate scoring guides, forms, instruments, and procedures used in determining the accreditation status of a district. This act allows tenured teachers in the St. Louis City School District to be removed based on incompetency. This act repeals the requirement that a notification of written charges seeking dismissal received during a vacation period be considered as received on the first day of the following school term. Currently, to be dismissed for inefficiency in the line of duty, a teacher must be notified in writing at least one semester prior to the presentment of charges. This waiting period is shortened to thirty days and will also apply to incompetency. This act modifies the prohibition on new teachers being hired while available teachers have been placed on leave of absence due to a reduction in force because of insufficient funds or a decrease in student enrollment. Instead, new teachers cannot be appointed while there are properly qualified teachers on unrequested leave of absence. A leave of absence because of a reduction in force will not impair the tenure of a teacher and will continue for up to three years, unless extended by the school board. This act repeals a provision governing how a reduction in force based on insufficient funds or a decrease in student enrollment would be conducted for non-certified employees in the St. Louis City School District. This act is substantially similar to SB 601 (2012), HB 1893 (2012) and provisions contained in HCS/HB 1526 (2012). MICHAEL RUFF
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