State Ex Rel. State Board of Education v. Montoya

MOISE, Justice.

In the present case we must determine if the district court of Santa Fe County should be prohibited from proceeding, either by way of mandamus or injunction, to consider the right of the State Board of Education to hear appeals of seven teachers in the Rio Arriba County school system. Involved is the question of whether or not the State Board of Education has jurisdiction to hear appeals of school teachers enjoying tenure status when such teachers are being transferred by the employing board of education, and it is alleged that the transfer is, in effect, a dismissal because of…