Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 16-24-2 (2026)
Criteria for Continuing Service Status for Teachers, Principals and Supervisors; List of Persons Recommended for Continuing Status; Effect of Consolidation or Separation of Schools.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, laws through the 2026 Regular Session
Repealed by Act 2011-270, p. 494, §14, effective July 1, 2011.
(Acts 1939, No. 499, p. 759, §2; Code 1940, T. 52, §352; Acts 1951, No. 806, p. 1408; Acts 1953, No. 773, p. 1040, §1.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 39
cases, 1978–2013 · leading case: Ex parte Oden, 495 So. 2d 664 (Ala. 1986).
Ex parte Oden, 495 So. 2d 664 (Ala. 1986). “) A teacher who meets the requirements of Code 1975, § 16-24-2, attains continuing service status, which does not inhere in the particular teaching position the teacher holds at the time, but in the teacher.”
Smith v. Alabama State Tenure Com'n, 430 So. 2d 877 (Ala. Civ. App. 1982). “The Smith decision is stated to be founded upon the property interest granted a teacher under § 16-24-2. Such an interest is said to invoke the procedural safeguards of due process of the federal Constitution.”
Bell v. Bd. of Sch. Com'rs of Mobile Cty., 450 F. Supp. 162 (S.D. Ala. 1978). “Code of Alabama, § 16-24-2(a) (1975). Eligibility for tenure under Alabama law requires three years consecutive service under contract with the same county or city school system and reemployment with the same for the succeeding school year.”
Ex parte Weaver, 559 So. 2d 178 (Ala. 1989). “The issue before us is whether Weaver abandoned her tenured position as instructor, as the Tenure Commission held, or was promoted to the position of a "supervisor" within the meaning of Ala.Code 1975, § 16-24-2, as Weaver claims.”
Haynes v. Coleman, 30 So. 3d 420 (Ala. Civ. App. 2009). “Ala.Code 1975, § 16-24-2. Alabama Code 1975, § 16-24-9, affords notice and an opportunity to be heard to tenured teachers before their employment contracts may be canceled.”
Kilgore v. Jasper City Bd. of Educ., 624 So. 2d 603 (Ala. Civ. App. 1993). “*605 We begin by noting that Ala.Code 1975, § 16-24-2, provides that a teacher shall attain continuing service status (tenure) when "such teacher shall have served under contract as a teacher in the same .”
James v. Bd. of Sch. Com'rs of Mobile Cnty., Ala., 484 F. Supp. 705 (S.D. Ala. 1979). “Code § 16-24-2 a “teacher in the public schools who shall meet the following requirements shall attain continuing service status.”
Walker v. Elmore Cnty. Bd. of Educ., 223 F. Supp. 2d 1255 (M.D. Ala. 2002). “The school board responds that Walker was not an eligible employee at the time her leave would have commenced because she had not worked 52 weeks, and asserts that she worked only the approximately nine months that cover a school year. In addition, the court notes that Walker…”
Nelson v. Etowah Cnty. Bd. of Educ., 703 So. 2d 413 (Ala. Civ. App. 1997). “Although I agree that the classes Nelson taught were public education and that Nelson is a teacher covered by the teacher tenure laws, I must respectfully dissent from the affirmance of the trial court's finding that Nelson is not a tenured teacher because she did not work under…”
Montgomery Cnty. Bd. of Educ. v. Webb, 53 So. 3d 121 (Ala. 2009). “” It is undisputed that Webb had attained continuing-service status under § 16-24-2(a). Sections 16-24-8 to -10, Ala.”
Bd. of Sch. Commissioners v. Weaver, 99 So. 3d 1210 (Ala. 2012). “In the 2007-2008 school year, plaintiffs had acquired ‘continuing service status’ (tenure) as teachers, as that term is used in Section 16-24-2, Code of Alabama 1975. In the 2007-2008 school year, plaintiffs had not acquired tenure in their positions of assistant principal.”
Bd. of Sch. Com'rs of Mobile v. Glenn, 70 So. 3d 340 (Ala. Civ. App. 2010). “] Code 1975, § 16-24-2, attains continuing service status, which does not inhere in the particular teaching position the teacher holds at the time, but in the teacher.”
Ala. Code § 16-24-2(a): 16 cases
Bell v. Bd. of Sch. Com'rs of Mobile Cty., 450 F. Supp. 162 (S.D. Ala. 1978). “Code of Alabama, § 16-24-2(a) (1975). Eligibility for tenure under Alabama law requires three years consecutive service under contract with the same county or city school system and reemployment with the same for the succeeding school year.”
Smith v. Alabama State Tenure Com'n, 430 So. 2d 877 (Ala. Civ. App. 1982). “The Smith decision is stated to be founded upon the property interest granted a teacher under § 16-24-2. Such an interest is said to invoke the procedural safeguards of due process of the federal Constitution.”
Nelson v. Etowah Cnty. Bd. of Educ., 703 So. 2d 413 (Ala. Civ. App. 1997). “Although I agree that the classes Nelson taught were public education and that Nelson is a teacher covered by the teacher tenure laws, I must respectfully dissent from the affirmance of the trial court's finding that Nelson is not a tenured teacher because she did not work under…”
Montgomery Cnty. Bd. of Educ. v. Webb, 53 So. 3d 121 (Ala. 2009). “” It is undisputed that Webb had attained continuing-service status under § 16-24-2(a). Sections 16-24-8 to -10, Ala.”
Kilgore v. Jasper City Bd. of Educ., 624 So. 2d 603 (Ala. Civ. App. 1993). “*605 We begin by noting that Ala.Code 1975, § 16-24-2, provides that a teacher shall attain continuing service status (tenure) when "such teacher shall have served under contract as a teacher in the same .”
Ala. Code § 16-24-2(b): 10 cases
Smith v. Alabama State Tenure Com'n, 430 So. 2d 877 (Ala. Civ. App. 1982). “The Smith decision is stated to be founded upon the property interest granted a teacher under § 16-24-2. Such an interest is said to invoke the procedural safeguards of due process of the federal Constitution.”
Ex parte Oden, 495 So. 2d 664 (Ala. 1986). “) A teacher who meets the requirements of Code 1975, § 16-24-2, attains continuing service status, which does not inhere in the particular teaching position the teacher holds at the time, but in the teacher.”
State Tenure Comm'n v. Page, 777 So. 2d 126 (Ala. Civ. App. 2000).
Ex parte Alabama State Tenure Com'n, 474 So. 2d 101 (Ala. 1985).
Bd. of Sch. Com'rs of Mobile v. Glenn, 70 So. 3d 340 (Ala. Civ. App. 2010). “] Code 1975, § 16-24-2, attains continuing service status, which does not inhere in the particular teaching position the teacher holds at the time, but in the teacher.”
Ala. Code § 16-24-2(c): 1 case
Bell v. Bd. of Sch. Com'rs of Mobile Cty., 450 F. Supp. 162 (S.D. Ala. 1978). “Code of Alabama, § 16-24-2(a) (1975). Eligibility for tenure under Alabama law requires three years consecutive service under contract with the same county or city school system and reemployment with the same for the succeeding school year.”
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