Montana § 20-7-456 - Tenure Of Teachers Employed By Cooperatives
Full text of Montana Montana Code Annotated § 20-7-456 — Tenure Of Teachers Employed By Cooperatives, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 20-7-456. Tenure Of Teachers Employed By Cooperatives
Tenure of teachers employed by cooperatives. (1) Teachers who have tenure rights with a district and are employed by a cooperative of which their district is a member do not lose their tenure with the district. (2) Nontenured teachers employed by a cooperative acquire tenure with a cooperative in the same manner as prescribed in 20-4-203 , and the provisions of 20-4-204 through 20-4-207 are applicable to teachers employed by a cooperative. (3) Tenure for a teacher employed by a cooperative is acquired only with the cooperative and not with a member school district of a cooperative. (4) For the purposes of tenure of a teacher employed by a cooperative, cooperative contract renewals may not be used to limit the teacher's progress toward tenure status.
Source: official Montana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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