TeBordo v. Cold Spring Harbor Central School District

In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to review the appellant school district’s placement of certain letters of reprimand into the petitioner’s personnel file without affording him a due process hearing, the school district appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Lama, J.), dated January 21, 1986, which ordered that the letters be expunged from the petitioner’s file.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, and the proceeding is dismissed on the merits.

Education Law § 3020-a provides the exclusive method of disciplining a…