Board of Public Instruction v. Feller

This interlocutory appeal is from a post-decretal order in an action for declaratory judgment. '

In order to rinderstand the order on appeal, it is necessary to consider some of the past history of this case.

A suit was filed by Dena Feller, individually, “and on behalf of all other school teachers similarly situated”, against the Board of Public Instruction of Dade County, Florida. Plaintiff alleged that she was a “four-sevenths” school teachef in Dade County, Florida. “Four-sevenths deachers” are those teachers who contract to teach regularly for four out of every seven hour school day. She…