SB 685

Under current law, a school board must annually give a teacher employed by

the board a written notice of renewal or refusal to renew the teacher's contract for

the following school year. The statutory renewal provision may be modified, waived,

or replaced by a collective bargaining agreement. Under current law, the board of

directors in any city of the first class (currently, Milwaukee) is not required to provide

written notice of renewal or refusal to renew the contract of a teacher employed by

that board of directors.

This bill provides that the term of each teacher's employment contract is limited

to one year, until the teacher has been continuously employed by the same board of

directors for five years, at which point the term of the contract becomes two years.

The bill also requires the board of directors in any city of the first class to provide

written notice of renewal or refusal to renew the contract of a teacher employed by

that board of directors. The bill limits the term of the employment contract of a

teacher employed by the board of directors in a city of the first class to one year until

the teacher has been continuously employed by the same board of directors for five

years, at which point the term of the contract becomes two years.

Finally, this bill prohibits the nonrenewal of a contract for arbitrary or

capricious reasons and provides that the reasons for renewal or nonrenewal are a

prohibited subject of collective bargaining for school district employees.