Racine Unified School District v. Thompson

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Barbara Thompson 1 appeals from a judgment overturning her order reversing an expulsion on the ground that hearsay was inadmissible at a school board student expulsion hearing. We conclude that a student’s right to due process in an expulsion hearing is satisfied even though some of the testimony presented was hearsay given by members of the school staff. For this reason, we affirm the judgment of the circuit court.

On March 3, 1980, V.O., an eleventh-grader at J.I. Case High School in Racine was requested by Assistant Principal Christiansen to…