Leola School District v. McMahan

By this opinion the court has, I believe, assumed the role of deciding whether a teacher’s contract should or should not have been renewed. However, that responsibility under the law belongs neither to this court nor to the circuit court, but to the Leola School District. Kirtly v. Dardanelle Public Schools, 288 Ark. 86, 702 S.W.2d 25 (1986).

In White v. Jenkins, 213 Ark. 119, 209 S.W.2d 457 (1948), we said:

It is well settled that courts may not intervene to control matters in the discretion of administrative bodies such as school boards, in the absence of a showing of an abuse of such…