Stoneman v. Tamworth School District

The major issue in this case is whether the failure of the defendant school board to provide notice of a meeting in which it voted not to renew the plaintiff’s contract as teaching principal of the elementary school for the 1973-74 school year violated RSA ch. 91-A (Supp. 1973) which requires in pertinent part public notice of the proceedings of any school board in the State.

The plaintiff was hired by the defendant school district as a teaching principal at the Kenneth A. Brett school in September 1970 and continued in this capacity through June 1973. In early March 1973, the superintendent…