Mingo County Board of Education v. Jones

The Mingo County Superintendent of Schools, Mr. Everett Conn, and the Mingo County Board of Education chose the applicant they deemed best qualified to serve as the principal of Matewan High School. The Board violated no statute, and it had good and sound reasons for its decision.1 Yet the *344majority now removes this principal from her job and requires the Mingo County Board of Education to pay years of back wages. Thus, I must vociferously dissent.

West Virginia Code § 18A-4-7a neither explicitly authorizes nor explicitly precludes re-posting of job openings. The majority’s interpretation of…