Bill Text: VA HB570 | 2020 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Teachers, public school; grounds for dismissal.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-03-02 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0056) [HB570 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2020-HB570-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §22.1-307 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§22.1-307. Dismissal of teacher; grounds.
A. Teachers may be dismissed for incompetency,
immorality, noncompliance with school laws and regulations, disability as shown
by competent medical evidence when in compliance with federal law, conviction
of a felony or a crime of moral turpitude, or other good and just cause. A
teacher shall be dismissed if such teacher is or becomes the subject of a
founded complaint of child abuse and neglect, pursuant to §63.2-1505, and
after all rights to any administrative appeal provided by §63.2-1526 have been
exhausted. The fact of such finding, after all rights to any administrative
appeal provided by §63.2-1526 have been exhausted, shall be grounds for the
local school division to recommend that the Board of Education revoke such
person's license to teach. No teacher shall be dismissed or placed on probation
solely on the basis of the teacher's refusal to submit to a polygraph
examination requested by the school board.
B. For the purposes of this article,
"incompetency" may be construed to include, but shall not be limited
to, consistent failure to meet the endorsement requirements for the position or
one or more unsatisfactory performance evaluations.
