Lezette v. Board of Education

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Ulster County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, seeking her reinstatement with back pay to a teaching position in the respondent school district. Petitioner, appointed effective September 1, 1971 as a probationary elementary teacher at the first grade of the Stottsville School in the respondent school district, was informed by letter, dated June 13, 1972, that, due to the small enrollment in the first grade, her position was being eliminated for the 1972-1973 year and that she would receive…