Hope Education Ass'n v. Hope School District

David Newbern, Justice.

This case involves the chancellor’s refusal to require the Board of Education of Hope School District (the Board) to submit to the District Personnel Policies Committee (the Committee) a five percent increase in extra duty pay for teachers and administrators prior to adoption. The Chancellor held the Committee was invalidly formed, and therefore, the Board’s failure to refer the five percent increase was excused.

The Hope Education Association (HEA), an unincorporated association of fifty-eight classroom teachers employed by the Hope School District (HSD), argues the…