Karol v. Board of Education Trustees

HAYS, Justice.

The appellants are four probationary teachers (teachers) whose employment was not continued by the appellee Board of Education (board). The teachers filed a special action in the superior court alleging that the open-meeting law, A.R.S. § 38-431, et seq., was violated and that their contracts were automatically renewed as a result thereof. The court found that the open-meeting law had been violated, but concluded that the board’s intention not to continue the teachers was still operative and binding. The teachers appealed, arguing that the board could not have legally formulated…