Tex. Educ. Code § 21.156 · Subchapter D. CONTINUING CONTRACTS
DISCHARGE OR SUSPENSION WITHOUT PAY UNDER CONTINUING CONTRACT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A teacher employed under a continuing contract may be discharged at any time for good cause as determined by the board of trustees, good cause being the failure to meet the accepted standards of conduct for the profession as generally recognized and applied in similarly situated school districts in this state.
(b) In lieu of discharge or pending discharge, a school district may suspend a teacher without pay for good cause as specified by Subsection (a) for a period not to extend beyond the end of the current school year.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 8 (S.B. 8), Sec. 6, eff. September 28, 2011.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.21.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
Cited by 3 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Educ. Code § 21.156. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Education Code
- Tex. Educ. Code § 21.154STATUS UNDER CONTINUING CONTRACT.Printed as Section 21.156
- Tex. Educ. Code § 21.159HEARING UNDER CONTINUING CONTRACT.Printed as Section 21.156 | Section 21.156 or 21.157
- Tex. Educ. Code § 26.008RIGHT TO FULL INFORMATION CONCERNING STUDENT.Printed as Section 21.104, 21.156, or 21.211
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