Bonnell v. Carr

MILLER, Chief Justice:

In these two cases which were consolidated for appeal, we are asked to decide the rights of auxiliary school personnel whose salaries were federally funded under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, 29 U.S.C. § 801 et seq., (CETA), and who were terminated from their employment when the CETA program was altered. 1

The appellants who are the terminated auxiliary personnel argue that notwithstanding the cessation of their CETA eligibility, they had already acquired continuing contract status under W.Va.Code, 18A-2-6 (1973), and that as a result of this continuing…