Legal Opinion
Ricca v. Board of Education
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 12, 1979PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Gabrielli, J.
We are called upon to determine whether a board of education may avoid proper application of State laws regulating the grant of tenure to teachers and effectively increase the period of probationary employment provided by law, by the simple expedient of delaying formal appointment of a qualified teacher to an available position which that teacher in fact already fills. We conclude that it may not.
Petitioner was first employed by respondent school district in 1963 as a per diem substitute teacher of woodworking at McKee Vocational High School on Staten Island.…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Cohoes City School District v. Cohoes Teachers Ass'nNew York Court of Appeals · 1976
- Baer v. NyquistNew York Court of Appeals · 1974
- Schlosser v. Board of EducationNew York Court of Appeals · 1979
- MATTER OF BD. OF EDUC. v. NyquistNew York Court of Appeals · 1973
- Board of Education of the City School District of Oneida v. NyquistAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1977
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3Cited by61 opinions
- Gould v. Board of EducationNew York Court of Appeals · 1993
- McManus v. Board of Education of Hempstead Union Free School DistrictNew York Court of Appeals · 1995
- Feinerman v. Board of Cooperative Educational ServicesNew York Court of Appeals · 1979
- Board of Education v. NyquistNew York Court of Appeals · 1979
- Speichler v. Board of Cooperative Educational ServicesNew York Court of Appeals · 1997
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