Gongola v. Szado

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered in Rensselaer County) to review a determination of the respondent superintendent of schools which determined the guilt of petitioner and assessed a penalty. Petitioner, an employee of the respondent school district since 1974, was charged, in a proceeding brought pursuant to section 75 of the Civil Service Law, with misconduct and insubordination arising essentially from three separate specifications concerning events that occurred on December 2, 1980 (Specification No. 1),…