Vermont Statutes Title 16 Sec. 1986
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 16 Sec. 1986
- Administrator: means any person so licensed by the Vermont Standards Board for professional educators, the majority of whose employed time in a school or a school district is devoted to serving as superintendent, assistant superintendent, assistant to the superintendent, supervisor, principal, or assistant principal. See
- School district: means any public school district or any independent elementary or secondary school within the State that directly or indirectly receives support from public funds. See
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
- State Board: means the State Board of Education established by chapter 3 of this title. See
- Supervisory union: means an administrative, planning, and educational service unit created by the State Board under section 261 of this title, that consists of two or more school districts; if the context clearly allows, the term also means a supervisory district. See
- Teacher: means any person licensed employable as a teacher by the Vermont Standards Board for Professional Educators who is not an administrator as defined in this section. See
- Testify: Answer questions in court.
§ 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.)