Thompson v. Board of Education

WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.

This appeal is from a decision of the Court of Appeals which held that an Evaluation Appeals Panel did not have authority pursuant to K.R.S. 156.101(10) to review the judgmental conclusions contained in a job performance evaluation for a certified nontenured teacher.

The issue is whether a teacher has the right to contest the substance of an evaluation before the Evaluation Appeals Panel.

Thompson was a nontenured certified classroom special education teacher employed by the Henderson County Board of Education during the 1985-86 and 1986-87 school years. He was employed…