Dunnigan v. Ambach

— Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at Special Term (Hughes, J.), entered May 9, 1984 in Albany County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to annul the determination of the Commissioner of Education dismissing petitioner from her employment as a tenured teacher.

In May, 1981, respondent Ramapo Central School District in Rockland County preferred charges of, inter alia, incompetence and insubordination against petitioner. After extensive hearings, a hearing panel determined that petitioner was guilty of the charges. The penalty…