Ala. State Tenure Com'n v. Oneonta City, Bd. of Educ.

This is a teacher tenure case. The issue is whether the Circuit Court of Blount County properly issued a writ of mandamus upon the petition of the Oneonta Board of Education directing the State Tenure Commission to dismiss the appeal of a teacher. We find the issuance of the writ erroneous and dismiss the writ.

Jasper F. Basye, intervening teacher, a teacher with continuing service status under the Alabama Teacher Law, §§16-24-1 through 38, Code of Alabama (1975), in the Oneonta city school system had his contract terminated by the Board of Education on September 14, 1978. He took an appeal to…