Teachers' Tenure Act Cases

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Kephart,

The Teachers’ Tenure Act, No. 52, of the General Session of 1937, was approved April 6, 1937, P. L. 213, by the Governor; it amended certain important sections of the Act of May 18,1911, P. L. 309, and its supplements. Section 1 of the Tenure Act amended section 1201 by de filling “professional employees” of the school district. Section 2 provides that all school districts shall, within 30 days after the enactment of the law, tender to all such professional employees, then “employed,” new contracts drawn in accordance with a form therein prescribed. The new…