Robbins v. McDowell County Board of Education

MILLER, Chief Justice:

This is an appeal from a final order of the Circuit Court of McDowell County, dated September 18, 1990, which denied the petition of three vocational education teachers for a writ of mandamus to compel the McDowell County Board of Education (the Board) to grant them the same monetary inducements awarded vocational education teachers hired between 1974 and 1984. At issue is whether the disparity in treatment violates the uniformity of pay provisions of W.Va.Code, 18A-4-5a.

The facts are essentially undisputed. It appears that in 1974, the Board found a need to attract…