Legal Question Delays Official Rehiring of Teachers
by Stanley Meisler
Commentary by Stanley Meisler
April 24, 1953
April 1953
Middletown, Ohio
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Four-Month Contracts May Be Illegal, Board Advised; Decision Asked - Decision on individual teacher salaries was delayed, possibly until May 14, when the Board of Education discovered, at its meeting last night that a plan to hire teachers on a four-month basis next year may be illegal. It was emphasized, however, that the problem is not one of appointments. By Ohio law, teachers must be notified by March 31 if the board does not intend reappointment. Members also stressed that the decision to pay teachers only until December 23 during the 1953-54 school year, pending a report by a citizen’s committee studying ways of increasing salaries, was made in good faith...
Four-Month Contracts May Be Illegal, Board Advised; Decision Asked - Decision on individual teacher salaries was delayed, possibly until May 14, when the Board of Education discovered, at its meeting last night that a plan to hire teachers on a four-month basis next year may be illegal. It was emphasized, however, that the problem is not one of appointments. By Ohio law, teachers must be notified by March 31 if the board does not intend reappointment. Members also stressed that the decision to pay teachers only until December 23 during the 1953-54 school year, pending a report by a citizen’s committee studying ways of increasing salaries, was made in good faith...
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