Council of Supervisory Associations v. Board of Education

This application for a temporary injunction in an article 78 proceeding to restrain respondents from permitting an allegedly unlicensed person to act as a public school principal represents yet another skirmish in the continuing war for control of the schools and the minds of the children. The participants all profess the noblest of motivations, and each ascribe to their adversaries the darkest and narrowest ends. The court, however, must make its decision based not upon its *549own view of desirable policy, but within the circumscribed limits of what is legally permissible.

The factual pattern…