August v. Director of Division of Employment Security

Eighteen employees of the Somerville School Department worked as teacher aides in a federally-funded Title I program during the academic year 1979-1980. Their contracts of employment for that year terminated June 23, 1980. They applied, unsuccessfully, for unemployment compensation benefits for the period running from that date until the resumption of school the following September. The decisions by local unemployment office examiners to deny *827them benefits have been affirmed by both the director and the board of review of the Division of Employment Security, G. L. c. 151A, §§ 39-41, and by a…