Legal Opinion
Lee v. Board of Education
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided June 3, 1980PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtArthur H. Healey, J.
This ease concerns the termination of a tenured teacher’s contract of employment for cause under General Statutes §10-151 (b). The plaintiff, Elinor Lee, who had been employed by the defendant board of education of the city of Bristol (hereinafter the board) for over four years and, hence, had acquired tenure under General Statutes § 10-151 (b), was discharged by the board on August 30, 1974. The plaintiff appealed from that decision to the Court of Common Pleas, which dismissed the appeal. The appeal to this court followed.
The relevant facts are not in dispute: On April 1, 1974, the…
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