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SBEC updates disciplinary rules, narrows some mitigation reductions for contract‑abandonment cases
Summary
The State Board for Educator Certification adopted amendments to 19 TAC chapter 2.49 that add procedural clarifications and update minimum sanctions and definitions for disciplinary proceedings, including a staff recommendation to exclude certain pay and working‑condition mitigation factors from an automatic one‑month mitigation formula for contract‑abandonment cases.
The State Board for Educator Certification on Feb. 14 adopted revisions to 19 TAC chapter 2.49 governing disciplinary proceedings, sanctions and contested cases.
Staff outlined several substantive changes: tightened documentation requirements for contract abandonment; updates to allow service by email in some circumstances; alignment of the definition of “abuse” with the Family Code;…
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