Alabama State Tenure Commission v. Conecuh County Board of Education

We granted a writ of certiorari to review the troublesome problem presented where the Tenure Commission found both that the school board conducting the termination hearing was unconstitutionally biased and that the evidence supported the charges. Without giving an opportunity for a hearing before a fair and impartial tribunal, a school board cannot fire a teacher with a property right in his employment. Code 1975, § 16-24-9; Ex parte Greenberg, 395 So.2d 1000 (Ala.1981). The tenure statutes do not provide for any alternative procedure where the board is found to be too biased to conduct a…