Board of Education v. Nyquist

The sole question presented in this article 78 proceeding is whether or not a decision of the Acting Commissioner of Education4that respondent Ann Nuzzi was serving as a regular substitute teacher for the 1966 Spring Term was purely arbitrary (Education Law, § 310). On the first day of the Spring Term she was assigned to the class of a regular teacher who had suffered a severe paralytic stroke. She was assigned to the class within the first 15 days of the term, and did in fact teach the same class for the entire term. Section 484 of the by-laws of respondent Commissioner of Education states…