Jones v. Turlington

This appeal is brought from a final order of the Education Practices Commission which directs the appellant to voluntarily and irrevocably relinquish a teaching certificate.

The order is based on a stipulation whereby the appellant agreed to surrender his teaching certificate if convicted of pending criminal charges in exchange for a continuation of a scheduled administrative proceeding based on the same criminal conduct. There is now a disagreement as to what was the intent of the parties.1

When the stipulation was entered into there were two cases pending against the appellant involving…