Baker v. Oneonta City Bd. of Educ.

This appeal arises from the Oneonta City Board of Education's discontinuation of local step and/or incremental salary raises in the Oneonta city school system. Appellants include both individually named school teachers and the Oneonta Education Association, which represents a majority of the teachers in the city school system.

On August 14, 1985 the Oneonta City Board of Education adopted a new salary schedule for 1985-86. At this same meeting the Board voted to eliminate the local steps and increments previously included in the teachers' salary schedule.

In response, appellants filed a…