Phillips v. South Range Local School District Board of Education

The Ohio Teachers’ Tenure Act of 1941 (H.B. No. 121,119 Ohio Laws 121) was enacted to provide teachers with employment stability. “ ‘The very laudable purpose of this act was to insure to the teachers some measure of security in their important work and to free them, at least to a measurable extent from the “vicissitudes of politics” or the likes or dislikes of those charged with the administration of school affairs.’ ” State, ex rel. Bishop, v. Bd. of Edn. (1942), 139 Ohio St. 427, 439, 22 O.O. 494, 499, 40 N.E. 2d 913, 919, quoting Bd of Edn. of Mar shall County v. Baugh (1941), 240 Ala.…