Jaffe v. Board of Education

The petitioners herein have been appointed from an eligible list as substitute teachers to teach history, English and elocution in the public high schools of the city of New York. In their petition they allege that there are seventy-nine vacancies for teachers of history, one hundred and forty-seven vacancies for teachers of English, and thirty vacancies for teachers of elocution in the public high schools of the city of New York. They further allege that the appellants are obliged by law to fill such vacancies when they occur, and that the practice followed by the appellants of appointing…