Ellis-Adams v. Whitfield County Board of Education

Benham, Judge.

With a series of related enumerations of error, Gilda Ellis-Adams appeals from an adverse decision of the Whitfield County Board of Education, which was affirmed by the State Board of Education and by the Whitfield County Superior Court. At the heart of this controversy is a determination by the local board that appellant had been “transferred” rather than “demoted,” and that she was not therefore entitled to a due process hearing under the Georgia Fair Dismissal Law. OCGA § 20-2-940 et seq. Though enumerated separately, appellant’s claims of error are part and parcel of one…