Professional Standards Commission v. Adams

Johnson, Judge.

We granted the Professional Standards Commission’s (“PSC”) application for discretionary review of a superior court order reversing the revocation of Priscilla Adams’ teaching certificate and remanding for imposition of a 90-day suspension. Because the superior court judge overstepped his authority in substituting its punishment for that imposed by the PSC, we must reverse.

The facts, as found by an administrative law judge (“ALJ”), show that on Friday, March 21, 2008, a 15-year-old Mundy’s Mill High School female student and two Mundy’s Mill High School male students had oral…