Averback v. Board of Education of the New Paltz Central School District

OPINION OF THE COURT

Mercure, J.

Petitioner was employed by respondent Board of Education of the New Paltz Central School District as assistant superintendent for business under the terms of a three-year written employment contract which, as is relevant here, provided that petitioner could be terminated for cause but that any such termination must be commenced by service of a written notice of discharge, setting forth the date of termination and the grounds therefor, and that petitioner was entitled to demand a fair hearing with full procedural due process protection. Petitioner was discharged…