School Committee of Providence v. Board of Regents for Education

OPINION

BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.

This is a petition for a writ of certiorari by the defendant Providence School Committee (committee) seeking a review of a decision of the Board of Regents for Education affirming a finding of the Commissioner of Education that the plaintiff, Carl S. Lauro (Lauro), was to be considered a long-term substitute teacher and therefore was improperly terminated by the committee.

The facts of this case are as follows. Lauro was employed intermittently as a per diem substitute teacher taking the place of various teachers in several schools in the Providence school…