Thorne v. Monroe City School Board

MARVIN, Judge.

The School Board appeals from a judgment preliminarily enjoining it from “discharging” from their duties as school bus drivers, the 19 plaintiffs who are also employed by the Board as full-time tenured school teachers. The Board discontinued the bus-driving services of its teacher-drivers, including plaintiffs, as a “cost-saving” measure in July before the school year began, without complying with the bus operator tenure law.

We reverse and render judgment for the Board.

PRIMARY CONTENTIONS

In granting the injunction, the trial court accepted plaintiffs’ contention that the…