Board of Education v. Townsend

(Filed July 20, 2000)

This per curiam opinion is most decidedly not authority for anyone to conclude that the previous practice (pre-1990) of awarding up to a year’s seniority for “substitutes” who worked 133 days or more in a year’s teaching employment is in conflict with the then-applicable law.

A settled line of cases before the State Employee Grievance Board, a state superintendent’s interpretation, and this Court’s decision in Harkins v. Ohio County Board of Education, 179 W.Va. 373, 369 S.E.2d 224 (1988) {per curiam) dictates this conclusion, as does a review of the applicable statutory…