168.232. Consequences of dissolution of St. Louis special school district. - Missouri Statutes

Consequences of dissolution of St. Louis special school district.

168.232. 1. If the responsibility for teaching all or any group ofstudents in a special school district located in a county of the firstclassification with a charter form of government and population of at leastnine hundred thousand inhabitants is transferred or removed to one or moreseparate school districts by vote of the citizens, dissolution, annexation,court action, or any other authority under Missouri or federal laws, thelatter school district or districts shall become the receiving or successorschool district or districts.

2. The successor school district or districts shall honor theprovisions of all teachers' contracts of teachers of the sending or priorschool district who are employed by the successor school districtpertaining to the tenure status or years of credit toward tenure or both ofsaid teachers and their salary position on the salary schedule and fringebenefits.

3. This section shall only apply to the transfer of an* academic,special education, vocational education or technical education program orathletic program from one school district identified in subsection 1 ofthis section to one or more separate school districts.

4. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a successordistrict to employ any person.

(L. 1998 S.B. 781 § 168.231)

*Word "a" appears in original rolls.