Zottola v. Three Rivers School District

Petitioner, a teacher, seeks review of an order of the Fair Dismissal Appeals Board that concluded that she had been wrongfully discharged and determined that the amount of her back-pay award should be offset by certain unemployment benefits petitioner had received. Specifically, the board determined that petitioner’s back-pay award should be reduced to the extent that the district had reimbursed the unemployment compensation fund on a “dollar-for-dollar” basis for benefits paid out between petitioner’s discharge and her reinstatement. Petitioner, on review, assigns as error the offset of…