Monroe County Board of Education v. Turner

ON APPLICATION FOR REHEARING

HOUSTON, Justice.

The opinion of April 10, 1992, is withdrawn and the following is substituted therefor.

The narrow question for our review is whether, upon receipt of a professional teaching certificate, the petitioner, Barbara-Lee Turner, could include the number of years of teaching service she had had under emergency and/or provisional teach*996ing certificates in computing the number of years required to obtain tenure.1 Our answer is yes.

Because the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals (Monroe County Board of Education v. Turner, 601 So.2d 992 (Ala.Civ.App.1991),…