Middleton v. Board of Education of the South Jefferson Central School District

OPINION OF THE COURT

J. Robert Lynch, J.

The petitioner was a full-time tenured home economics teacher for the respondent school board. Due to a decrease in students enrolled in home economics, the board in September, 1975 reduced her position to half time and she taught and was paid as a half-time teacher until June, 1980 when charges were brought against her under section 3020-a of the Education Law. She was at that point suspended with pay pending determination of the charges and a regular substitute teacher, Callahan, was hired for the half-time job during the petitioner’s suspension. The…