Bacon v. Board of Education

Some years ago, the board of education of the City of New York created the position of chairman of department (originally called “ first assistant ”) in a number of different subjects in the academic and vocational high schools in the city, and designated the licenses and qualifications required for appointment thereto. There are presently forty-three of such positions. He who is a chairman of department of a specified subject is required by the by-laws of the board of education to have a license as such chairman — separate and distinct from his license as a high school teacher — and to be…