Cohoes City School District v. Cohoes Teachers Ass'n

We hold that a board of education cannot relinquish its ultimate responsibility with respect to tenure determinations and that a provision of a collective bargaining agreement which would have that effect is unenforceable as against public policy.

In this case, Terrance Hagen having been first employed as a teacher in September, 1971 was terminated in June of 1974, at the end of his probationary period. The teachers association filed a grievance on Hagen’s behalf asserting violation of each *776of two provisions of the collective bargaining agreement between the board of education and the…