Brady v. The Board of Education

This is an application for an order of mandamus made by a teacher in the junior high schools of the city of New York to compel the board of education, for salary purposes, to place her as well as other teachers in that type of school, in the schedules provided for high school teachers. Effective February 1, 1929, the board of education adopted schedule 2-A whereby teachers of the seventh, eighth and ninth years were given a maximum salary of $3,830 for the twelfth and subsequent years of teaching experience, while regular teachers in the high schools, known as assistant teachers, were put…