Coffee v. Board of Education

In this article 78 proceeding, the petitioner who was an educational and vocational guidance counselor, seeks an order enjoining the respondent from preventing payment of certain sick leave and summer salary benefits to petitioner and directing that such payment be made to her.

The petitioner was from 1943 through September 11, 1970 an employee of the respondent, initially as a substitute teacher for two years and thereafter as an instructor of the mentally retarded in elementary schools and an educational and vocational guidance counselor. She alleges that in 1961 she helped form a charitable…