Latham v. STATE, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

This is an appeal from a Superior Court judgment dismissing the plaintiff’s appeal from a decision of the Board of Regents for Education. The Board of Regents had upheld a decision of the Commissioner of Education in which he had upheld a decision of the North Kingstown School Committee not to renew the teaching contract of the plaintiff for the 1971-72 school year.

The cause was heard on an agreed statement of facts by a Superior Court justice, the pertinent portions of which are as follows: The town of North Kingstown had employed plaintiff, Vera M. Latham, as a nontenured teacher for the…