Carlson v. SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 6 OF MARICOPA CTY.

EUBANK, Presiding Judge.

This appeal requires the court to determine whether or not there is statutory authority which allows a school district (ap-pellee herein, and defendant in the trial court) to unilaterally reduce the compensation set forth in written employment contracts between that school district and its employee teachers (as a class, appellants herein and plaintiffs in the trial court).

Although both appellants and appellee in their statements of the question presented refer only to A.R.S. § 15-257, a provision in the teachers’ tenure act, it is apparent from the arguments in both…