Graziano v. Board of Education of the Amherst Exempted Village School District

The main issues in this cause require a construction by this court of the applicable standard of review in a teacher-contract-termination case. The determinative statute in issue, R.C. 3319.16, as it read at the time relevant herein, provided in relevant part:

“The contract of a teacher may not be terminated except for gross inefficiency or immorality; for willful and persistent violations of reasonable regulations of the board of education; or for other good and just cause. Before terminating any contract, the employing board shall furnish the teacher a written notice signed by its treasurer…