The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2024 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
Title 16 : Education
Chapter 057 : LABOR RELATIONS FOR TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS
Subchapter 001 : GENERAL PROVISIONS
(Cite as: 16 V.S.A. § 1986)-
§ 1986. Noninterference with right to testify
(a) Subject to subsection (b) of this section, no teacher, administrator, or other employee of a school district or supervisory union shall be subject to discipline by the school district or supervisory union for testifying before the General Assembly or a committee of the General Assembly or before the State Board of Education.
(b) A teacher, administrator, or other employee of a school district or supervisory union who testifies before the General Assembly or a committee of the General Assembly or before the State Board of Education shall not divulge information that is confidential to the school district or supervisory union or to its students or staff and may be disciplined by the individual’s employer for divulging such confidential information.
(c) A teacher, administrator, or other employee of a school district or supervisory union who testifies before the General Assembly or a committee of the General Assembly or before the State Board of Education shall, unless authorized by the individual’s employer to testify on the employer’s behalf, state for the record that the individual is not testifying on behalf of the individual’s employer. (Added 2021, No. 111 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 11, 2022.)