Shearer v. Elizabeth Forward School District

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

This case, which we will call Case II, was consolidated for argument with Shearer v. Secretary of Education, 57 Pa. Commonwealth Ct. 266, 424 A.2d 633 (1981), which we will herein designate Case I.

We refer to the opinion filed in Case I for the procedural history of these appeals by petitioner, a school teacher, from his suspension and dismissal, which the Secretary of Education reversed on appeal, but with an order granting back pay entitlement only for the period after dismissal and not during the suspension. Case I involved issues as to back pay entitlement and…