Fitzpatrick v. Board of Education

The plaintiff herein is a teacher in Public School No. 43, in the borough of Brooklyn, and is the holder of a license known as “ Grade A” license, issued to her about twenty years ago, and has a rating as high as that accorded to any other candidate for the vacancy recently created in said school by the establishment of a new 8-B grade or graduating class. The plaintiff has applied for promotion to this class, but the board of superintendents, to whom the charter in the first instance gives power of appointment and of promotion of teachers, has selected David Goldwasser, a resident of…