Arnwine v. Union County Board of Education

ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., J.,

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which FRANK F. DROWOTA, III, C.J., and E. RILEY ANDERSON, JANICE M. HOLDER, and WILLIAM M. BARKER, JJ., joined.

Opinion

We granted permission to appeal in this case to determine whether the Union County Board of Education had authority to enter into a four-year employment con-traet with an assistant superintendent. The trial court found that the parties’ four-year contract was valid. The Court of Appeals reversed the trial court’s decision, concluding that no statutory authority existed for the Union County Board of Education to…