Maxfield v. Board of Education of Ridgewood

We held in Maxfield v. Board of Education of the Township of Ridgewood, Docket No. A-2946-81T3, an unreported decision dated April 20, 1983, that petitioner Maxfield was tenure-eligible at the time of respondent board of education’s decision not to rehire her for the 1976-1977 school year.

In its brief before us, the State Board of Education concedes that petitioner “would have achieved tenure prior to her dismissal” if our substantive holding in Spiewak v. Rutherford Bd. of Ed., 180 N.J.Super. 312 (App.Div.1981), aff’d 90 N.J. 63 (1982), is applied to her case. Nevertheless, petitioner’s ten…