Alabama State Tenure Commission v. Ray

The only issue in this case is whether the Alabama State Tenure Commission has jurisdiction to hear the appeal of a nontenured teacher whose teaching contract has been cancelled by the employer school board. We find that the Commission does not have such jurisdiction.

The appellee here, J. Hubert Ray, became a certificated teacher in the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind at Talladega, Alabama in 1974. On July 15, 1975 Mr. Ray's teaching contract at the deaf and blind school was cancelled by the school's board of trustees. Ray appealed the cancellation of his teaching contract to the State…