Beeson v. Warrenton-Hammond School District

The Warrenton-Hammond School District employed Sara Beeson as a teacher. The district dismissed her, and she appealed her dismissal to the Fair Dismissal Appeals Board (FDAB). The district moved to dismiss the appeal on the ground that Beeson was a probationary rather than a contract teacher and, therefore, that the FDAB lacked jurisdiction of the appeal. Compare ORS 342.895 and ORS 342.905, with ORS 342.835. The FDAB denied the motion. It concluded that Beeson was a contract teacher because she had completed the last year of her three-year probationary period in 2000 even though she had been…