Stephens v. Unified School District No. 500

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Foth, C.:

This case arises under the Kansas act against discrimination, K. S. A. 44-1001 et seq. The issues presented are procedural, involving what is required to preserve for judicial review a claim made before the Kansas commission on civil rights, and what the scope of that review should be when it is made.

In 1970 Clarence Stephens was employed by the appellee Unified School District No. 500 as a tenured teacher, and the school’s only black teacher, in Central Junior High School in Kansas City. Central’s student body was largely white. That summer…