Hagely v. Board of Education

DOWD, Judge.

On remand from the Supreme Court of Missouri, the trial court reversed the Board of Education (“Board”) of the Webster Groves School District’s (“District”) dismissal of the salary grievances of J. Scott Hagely and Mary Helen Brindell (“Teachers”).1 The Board and District appealed from that judgment. We reverse.

Teachers were employed throughout this litigation by the Board as permanent teachers with indefinite contracts within the meaning of § 168.104 of the Missouri Teacher Tenure Act, §§ 168.102-130, RSMo 1986.2 The Board, in consultation with representatives of all the teachers…