Oliver v. Kalamazoo Board of Education

OPINION

FOX, Senior District Judge.

In an opinion dated September 30, 1980, this court ordered the Kalamazoo Board of Education (KBE) to recall all black tenured teachers which it had laid off in staff reductions due to declining enrollment and financial resources. 498 F.Supp. 732 (1980). The court also ordered KBE to implement a 4:1 ratio for further recalls. In so ordering, the court rejected both straight seniority recall, which was provided for in the contract and supported by the Kalamazoo Education Association (KEA), and plaintiffs’ proposal to order all black faculty recalled. In its…