Code of Alabama - Title 16: Education - Chapter 24C - Students First Act

• Section 16-24C-1 Short title
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Students First Act of 2011.
• Section 16-24C-2 Legislative intent
  The purpose of this chapter is to improve the quality of public education in the State of Alabama by doing all of the following: (1)...
• Section 16-24C-3 Definitions
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER. The chief administrative and executive officer of an...
• Section 16-24C-4 Tenure of teachers; nonprobationary status of classified employees
  No action may be proposed or approved based upon personal or political reasons on the part of the employer, chief executive officer, or governing board....
• Section 16-24C-5 Termination of employment - Notice; compensation and benefits
  (a) Probationary classified employees who are not employees of a two-year educational institution operated under the authority and control of the Department of Postsecondary Education...
• Section 16-24C-6 Termination of employment - Grounds for termination; procedures; appeals
  (a) Tenured teachers and nonprobationary classified employees may be terminated at any time because of a justifiable decrease in the number of positions or for...
• Section 16-24C-7 Transfers and reassignments
  (a) Except as otherwise specified, employees may be transferred or reassigned at any time as the needs of the employer require to any position for...
• Section 16-24C-8 Hearings
  Whenever this chapter affords an employee the right to be heard by the governing board or the president of a two-year institution under the authority...
• Section 16-24C-9 Administrative leave; other employment actions
  Nothing in this chapter shall restrict the authority of the chief executive officer or the president of a two-year institution under the authority and control...
• Section 16-24C-10 Termination upon revocation of teaching certificate; effect of convictions
  (a) Any provision of this chapter or of any other statute or rule to the contrary notwithstanding, the employment of a teacher whose certificate is...
• Section 16-24C-11 Termination of employment by teacher
  THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED BY ACT 2018-83 IN THE 2018 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 2018. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. No...
• Section 16-24C-12 Appeals
  An employee who has attained tenure or nonprobationary status and has been denied a hearing before an employer subject to the requirements of this chapter...
• Section 16-24C-13 Leaves of absence
  (a) Leave of absence for a period of one year for good cause may be granted to an employee by an employer without impairing the...
• Section 16-24C-14 Construction and application
  (a)(1) Employees who have attained tenured status under the Teacher Tenure Law or nonprobationary status under the Fair Dismissal Act as of July 1, 2011,...

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