Makinson v. Board of Directors, School District No. 4

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus brought by the plaintiff, a teacher at the Eugene High School, to require the defendants who are the directors of the school district to hold a hearing with respect to the transfer by the board of the plaintiff from his position as a full-time teacher to a position as a half-time teacher. The plaintiff is and since 1949 has been a permanent teacher as defined in the Teachers’ Tenure Law, ORS 342.210(2). The defendants allege that plaintiff was a teacher of vocational agricnltnre, and:

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“That the enrollment in the classes in vocational agriculture has…