Board of School Directors of the Centennial School District v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

The Board of School Directors of the Centennial School District (School Board) has appealed an order *309of the Pennsylvania Secretary of Education (Secretary) reversing its discharge of Ruth F. Grant, a tenured professional employee, and ordering her reinstatement as its employee.

The School Board hired Grant as a school psychologist on March 1,1972 to work in its Office of Pupil Personnel Services. Her duties included those of counseling, testing and evaluating normal as well as mentally or emotionally handicapped children, and in the case of the latter placing them in…