Asadoorian v. Warwick School Committee

OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

Do absences from work have any effect on whether a probationary school teacher can qualify for tenure? We issued writs of cer-tiorari on these consolidated petitions to decide various issues pertaining to this question. In this case, the appropriate school authorities determined that, by missing at least 27 days during any one or more of their 180-day-long probationary school years, fifteen teachers had failed to attain tenure because they did not satisfy the minimum statutory requirement of completing three full and consecutive years of teaching. In reviewing the…