Nino v. Yonkers City School District

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The judgment of the Appellate Division should be reversed, with costs, and the determination of the board of education dismissing the respondent reinstated. The sole issue presented by this appeal is whether the Appellate Division properly reduced the sanction imposed by appellant board of education upon respondent teacher from dismissal to a temporary suspension without pay. It is now well settled that an administrative penalty is not to be set aside as excessive unless it is so "clearly disproportionate to the offense and completely inequitable in light of the…