Board of Education v. Muncy

STANLEY, Commissioner.

Toward the end of the 1949-1950 school year, the Board of Education of the Berea Independent School District deemed it necessary to reduce the faculty for the next year in order to effect essential economy because of the withdrawal by the Madison County Board of Education of more than 100 of its pupils for whom tuition had been paid. In pursuance thereof the Berea board notified Mrs. Lorena Muncy and Mrs. Clyde Botkin that their contracts as teachers would be suspended at the end of the school year and that their services would not be needed the next term. They filed…