Mannix v. Board of Education

The question presented by this appeal is the validity of conditions of additional qualification attached to the permanent appointment of a .teacher who has served a satisfactory probationary period. After permanent appointment may a teacher be removed without a hearing and without charges of incompetency because all the preconditions have not been fulfilled?

The statute applicable to the City of New York (Education Law, § 2573) is quite explicit in two relevant respects: (a) it prohibits the extension of a teacher’s probationary period beyond three years (subd, 1); (b) after the making of a…