Board of Education v. Allen

The respondents Adler, Nash, Feinstein, Mauer and Cohen are permanent employees of the petitioner, Board of Education of the City of New York (hereinafter the board). Three are public school teachers; one is a school clerk and one is a school principal. Each acknowledges past but denies present membership in the Communist party.

On March 17,1955 by amendment to its existing ‘ ‘ declaration of policy concerning Communist Party”, the Board authorized its Superintendent of Schools to require teachers and other employees whom he directed to appear before him, or his representative, to answer,…