New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TEACHING SERVICE ACT 1980 - SECT 93I

93I Dealing with unsatisfactory performance-school principals

(1) If the Director-General is of the opinion that a school principal’s performance is still unsatisfactory following the completion of a performance improvement program for the principal or following the principal’s failure to participate in, or to satisfactorily complete, such a program, the Director-General may:

(a) dismiss the school principal from the Teaching Service, or

(b) demote the school principal to a lower position in the Teaching Service.

(2) Before taking any such action with respect to a school principal, the Director-General must:

(a) notify the principal in writing of the proposed action and the reasons for taking that action, and

(b) give the principal at least 21 days in which to make written submissions to the Director-General in relation to the proposed action, and

(c) take into consideration any written submissions received from the principal during that period.

(3) This section does not limit or otherwise affect any power under this or any other Act to dismiss or demote a school principal or to suspend a school principal from duty.