Young v. Board of Education of Central School District No. 6

We are called upon to decide whether, consistent with the teacher tenure and compulsory education provisions of the Education Law, a school district may abolish the position of attendance teacher and divide the duties of the position among principals and assistant principals in the school district.

On September 1, 1961, the respondent Board of Education appointed the petitioner to the position of attendance teacher in the Harborfields School District. For some years prior to that time, such duties had been performed either by the principals of the school district or by an attendance teacher…