Birrer v. Trustees, Wheatland County School District No. 15

In this case, we affirm the termination of a tenured teacher by the Wheatland County School District No. 16, not on the grounds of “substantial compliance” with the applicable termination statute, but upon the grounds that there was an unrefuted necessity for a reduction in force by the School District and because the procedure used by the Board in termination did not offend the purposes of the termination procedure statute (§ 20-4-204, MCA).

Accordingly, we affirm the decision of the District Court, First Judicial District, Lewis and Clark County, which in turn affirmed the decision of the…