Catron v. Board of Education

Petitioner Cheryl Catron received notice in March 1982 that her position as band teacher with the Kansas Community Unit School District No. 3, Edgar County, was being reduced from full time to halftime due to the economic problems faced by the district and the small number of students involved in the junior high and high school band programs. As the district also employed a nontenured teacher, Diana ZuHone, teaching elementary music and high school speech, Catron made a demand for certain classes assigned to ZuHone for the 1982-83 school year which she, Catron, was qualified to teach. The…