Board of Education of the School District v. Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Local No. 3

The Court’s decision today permits school boards in Pennsylvania to abdicate one of their most essential prerogatives and duties, namely the discharge for cause of a teacher. The result disserves the cause of quality public school education in the Commonwealth. Because I am convinced that the Court’s holding is without statutory foundation, I must respectfully dissent.

Purportedly acting pursuant to the authority granted by § 514 of the Public School Code,1 the appellant Board of Education (the Board) on July 8, 1974, suspended from his position at the Crispin School one Edgar Vahey, a…