Rastle v. Marion County Rural School District No. 1

George Rose Smith, Justice.

The appellant Rastle, a school teacher, was employed by the Marion County Rural School District to teach during the school year running from September, 1974, to May, 1975. At the end of the school year the district apparently decided not to renew Rastle’s contract, but the district failed to give the required notice that the contract was being terminated. Newton v. Calhoun County Sch. Dist., 232 Ark. 943, 341 S.W. 2d 30 (1960). During the following summer the district was divided into two new districts, comprising the same territory as that of the original district.

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