OK SB25

Career teachers may be dismissed or not reemployed for eight grounds including willful neglect of duty, incompetency, instructional ineffectiveness, moral turpitude, or abandonment of contract, subject to the Teacher Due Process Act of 1990.

Teachers must be dismissed or not reemployed without pardon if convicted of sex offenses subject to sex offender registration or any felony offense during employment.

School districts must notify the State Board of Education within 10 days of dismissing or not reemploying a teacher for criminal sexual activity or sexual misconduct, and within 30 days of dismissal or resignation while under investigation for these offenses.

The State Board of Education may suspend or revoke a teacher's certificate by majority vote if grounds exist under this section or its rules, provided the teacher receives notice and a hearing under the Administrative Procedures Act.

The act becomes effective July 1, 2015, with an emergency clause allowing immediate effect upon passage and approval.