Flaherty v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board

Margaret Flaherty appeals from a Superior Court judgment affirming the denial by the Contributory Retirement Appeal Board of her request to purchase more than ten years of State retirement credits.

The facts are not in dispute. Flaherty, a teacher certified in Massachusetts, first taught at the St. Ann School, a nonpublic school in the Dorchester section of Boston, from 1953 to 1959. She then taught from 1959 to 1974 at the Boston School for the Deaf, a nonpublic school whose pupils’ tuition was paid in full or in part by the Commonwealth. From 1975 to 1980, she taught *133for the EDCO program…