Owen v. Long County Board of Education

Undercofler, Chief Justice.

This certiorari involves the firing of a principal from the Long County school system by serving notice under Georgia’s "Fair Dismissal Law” that his contract would not be renewed for the following school year. Code Ann. § 32-2101c et seq. (Ga. L. 1975, pp. 360-364).

We are concerned only with answering two questions of procedural law arising under the circumstances of the case: First, was the local board’s notice of non-renewal to Owen a violation of Code Ann. § 32-2103c? Second, subsequent to a hearing at which the local board reaffirmed its decision not to renew…