Bishop v. Board of Education

STEPHAN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a circuit court decision which affirmed an order of the respondent Board of Education of the Francis Howell School District terminating, without a hearing, appellant’s indefinite contract as a teacher with the district. We reverse that decision and remand for further proceedings as hereinafter set out.

Before her dismissal, appellant qualified as a “permanent teacher” with the district. Section 168.104(4), RSMo 1969. The dismissal was therefore cloaked with the procedural safeguards prescribed in the “Teacher-Tenure Act,” §§ 168.102 to 168.-*828130, and…