Hassildine v. Mattituck-Cutchogue Union Free School District

*624The informal hearing conducted by the respondent Board of Education (hereinafter the Board) in this case was not a quasi-judicial evidentiary hearing mandated by law. Therefore, the standard of review to be applied in this proceeding is whether the Board’s determination was arbitrary and capricious or affected by error of law, not whether the determination was supported by substantial evidence (see, Matter of Scherbyn v Wayne-Finger Lakes Bd. of Coop. Educ. Servs., 77 NY2d 753, 757-758; Matter of 125 Bar Corp. v State Liq. Auth., 24 NY2d 174, 178-179; Matter of Colton v Berman, 21 NY2d 322,…