Tucker v. Board of Education

This appeal involves the same parties that were before this court in Tucker v. Board of Education, 177 Conn. 572, 418 A.2d 933 (1979), (Tucker I), in which the plaintiff had appealed from the termination by the defendant board of education of her contract of employment to teach. In that case, we agreed with the board’s contention that insubordination, with which the plaintiff had been charged, “in and of itself constitutes ‘other due and sufficient cause’ for the termination of the plaintiff’s contract and is a valid statutory basis for dismissal under the provisions of [General Statutes] §…