Downing v. City of Lowell

A letter from the superintendent of the Lowell schools dated April 12, 1995, informed the plaintiff that his contract as principal of the C.G. McDonough Arts Magnet School would not be renewed at the end of the school year. That letter superseded one sent the previous day, April 11, that purported to dismiss him for cause: inefficiency, insubordination, and conduct unbecoming a principal. The question put is *780whether, thus postured, the plaintiff is entitled to the procedural safeguards of G. L. c. 71, § 41, third par., namely, review of the decision by petition for arbitration.2

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