Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, adds former students to those students with which an educator is subject to licensure discipline for engaging in sexually related behavior; removes the optional penalty of licensure discipline for an educator who breaks a contract with a local board of education without a justifiable reason. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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