Belanger v. Warren Consolidated School District

The question presented is whether the plaintiffs, tenured school teachers, acquired position-specific tenure as counselors with the defendant school district and thus were wrongfully laid off when they were replaced by tenured *593teachers with greater seniority who did not have position-specific tenure as counselors.

I would hold that the teacher tenure act1 contemplates that each school district may determine whether the employment contract it enters into shall exclude position-specific tenure for a non-classroom position, and that the plaintiffs were wrongfully laid off because the employment…