Legal Opinion
Washington Teachers' Union Local 6, American Federation of Teachers, Afl-Cio v. The Board of Education of the District of Columbia
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 21, 1997No. 96-7181PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TATEL, Circuit Judge:
Responding to the financial crisis facing the District of Columbia and exercising newly granted Congressional authority to implement emergency reductions-in-force, the Board of Education fired over 400 teachers in July 1996. Several laid-off teachers and their union sued, claiming that because principals selected teachers for firing based on school-wide rather than system-wide seniority and considered teachers’ professional experiences, contributions to their schools, and other non-seniority factors in ranking teachers for retention, the RIF violated the teachers’…
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