Becker v. Board of Education

Chief Judge Desmond.

By permission of the Appellate Division, Third Department, petitioner-appellant Frances Becker appeals here from a unanimous order of that court affirming a Special Term order.

This is a mandamus-type article 78 proceeding brought against the Middleburgh Central School District to compel that body to reinstate petitioner as a teacher and to grant her tenure. Respondent’s position, most simply stated, is that petitioner never acquired tenure because, although she was employed by the district as a teacher for about six years, she never taught in one “ area ” or category of…