State Tenure Commission v. Ezell

HOLMES, Judge.

This is a case involving the state teacher tenure laws.

The Alabama State Tenure Commission (Commission) appeals from the trial court’s order setting aside the decisions of the Commission and the Choctaw County Board of Education (Board). We reverse.

The record reveals the following: The appellee (director) was promoted to the position of director of a vocational school in 1975, after approximately twenty years of service as an agribusiness teacher. The vocational school which the director supervised had the capacity to house ten instructors. Prior to the 1985-86 school year,…