This monograph is a revision of an earlier edition designed to help school boards handle terminations of employment while reducing the likelihood of litigation arising from terminations. The former set of five procedural codes have been updated, modified, and added to. This edition contains six model procedural codes on which school boards can base policies covering (1) nonrenewal of probationary teachers' contracts; (2) grounds for dismissal of teachers; (3) teacher dismissal procedures; (4) reductions in force caused by enrollment decline, financial exigency, or program changes; (5) dismissal of a superintendent with a contract for a specified term; and (6) dismissal of assistant or associate superintendents with contracts for specified terms. Each code is made up of sections, each of which is followed by comments explaining or clarifying the section's intent. To serve as a practical model, the code is supplied with some optional sections and optional phrases within sections to provide alternatives for the policy-maker. The codes themselves are written with the statutory requirements of North Carolina in mind, and readers are urged to review their own state laws and regulations to determine revisions that will need to be made for their locations. Appendixes provide forms to be used in conjunction with the codes in dismissal or nonrenewal proceedings. (PGD)