State Ex Rel. Boner v. Kanawha County Board of Education

WORKMAN, Justice:

Petitioners 1 seek a writ of mandamus directing the Respondent State Superintendent of Schools, Henry Marockie, to refrain from abolishing the positions of seven Kanawha County full-time public school teachers who provide home/hospital (also referred to as “homebound”) instruction and one public school psychologist. After examining this issue, we determine that the plan to reduce previously full-time positions to hourly positions with no concomitant showing of any reduction in need for such instruction is not consistent with the statutory scheme encompassed within West…