Board of Education v. Hunley

Neely, Justice:

Following a review by the State Department of Education on 21 and 22 March 1979, the Fayette County Superintendent of Schools, George M. Edwards, was urged by the Regional Supervisor controlling Title I funds not to rehire two of the three secretaries then employed in the county’s Title I Health Centers. Had he taken that advice, the superintendent probably would have followed the procedures set forth in W. Va. Code, 18A-2-6 [1973] for terminating school employees, and this case would have been resolved then.

However, since each of the three secretaries then working had over ten…