People ex rel. Callahan v. Board of Education
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Board of Education of the City of New York, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term bearing date the 17th day of May, 1902, and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings, granting a peremptory writ of mandamus commanding the defendant to reinstate the relator in the position of teacher of the fourth grammar grade in Public School No. 90 of the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
This appeal presents two questions : (1) Whether a reduction in the rank and pay of a public school teacher in the city of New York is equivalent to a removal from the position held by the teacher prior to such reduction; and (2) whether a public school teacher under the law as it now stands is subject to removal except for cause after a hearing upon charges duly preferred against such teacher.
On February 1, 1898, the relator was appointed a teacher of the sixth grammar grade in Brooklyn. On June 30, 1900, she was appointed a teacher of the fourth grammar grade. On…
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