Van Derzee v. Board of Education of Odessa-Montour Central School District

Petitioner was first hired as a substitute teacher by respondent Board of Education of the Odessa-Montour Central School District (hereinafter respondent) in the fall of 1985. By September 1991, she was employed by respondent in a part-time teaching position which was not a probationary appointment. Petitioner was offered employment as a full-time probationary, i.e., tenure-track, elementary teacher on three occasions, but elected to remain in her part-time nonprobationary position.

In January 1994, after petitioner had turned down the third offer of a probationary, tenure-track position, the…