RUTHERFORD EDUC. ASS'N v. BD. OF EDUC.


99 N.J. 8 (1985)

489 A.2d 1148

RUTHERFORD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, CAROL A. FROEHLICH, DAVID SKIDMORE AND JOANNE ROSS, APPELLANTS, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE BOROUGH OF RUTHERFORD, BERGEN COUNTY, RESPONDENT. LINDA MCGOVERN, APPELLANT, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE BOROUGH OF RIVERDALE, MORRIS COUNTY, RESPONDENT. THEA LEVINSKY, APPELLANT, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE PASCACK VALLEY REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT, BERGEN COUNTY, RESPONDENT. LAURIE CURRIER, APPELLANT, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF WEEHAWKEN, HUDSON COUNTY, RESPONDENT. FAIR LAWN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, KAY BERGQUIST, ELEANOR JASNOW, FLORA FRANK, ANNE JOYCE SCHLEIER, REET HAYDEN, PHYLLIS STOLAR, RUTH E. ROGLER, EILEEN ZELCH, NESSIA GORMANNS, VIVIAN C. FELICE, PATRICIA S. SMOTZER, ELAINE PAVON, NANCY DIXON, KATHERINE SOLOMON, MYRA SPIRA, CLARE SALESKY, MURIEL HIRSCH, VIRGINIA E. WHITMAN, ARLENE ALBALAH, EILEEN SPIELMAN, FYRNE ZAGORIA, ELLEN LEVY, MARCIA SALKOWITZ, JANET FORER, NATALIE WEISSMAN, SYBIL B. PINE AND BARBARA RUDNICK, APPELLANTS, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE BOROUGH OF FAIR LAWN, BERGEN COUNTY, RESPONDENT. NEW MILFORD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, ANITA SCULT, LINDA MACCHIO, JANET FLIEGER, ELAINE GLINE AND DEBORAH BOGYO, RESPONDENTS, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE BOROUGH OF NEW MILFORD, APPELLANT.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided April 11, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Ronald Levine argued the cause for respondent Board of Education of the Borough of Rutherford, etc.

Sidney A. Sayovitz argued the cause for respondent Board of Education of the Borough of Riverdale, etc. (Greenwood and Sayovitz, attorneys).

Brian N. Flynn argued the cause for respondent Board of Education of the Township of Weehawken, etc. (Krieger, Ferrara, Flynn and Catalina, attorneys).

Sheldon H. Pincus argued the cause for respondents New Milford Education Association, et al. (Bucceri & Pincus, attorneys; Gregory T. Syrek, of counsel and on the brief).

Regina A. Murray, Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause for respondent State Board of Education (Irwin I. Kimmelman, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney).

Susan Galante, Associate Counsel, submitted a brief on behalf of amicus curiae New Jersey School Boards Association in A-45 Rutherford Education Association v. Board of Education of the Borough of Rutherford (Paula A. Mullaly, General Counsel, attorney).

Gregory T. Syrek argued the cause for appellants Rutherford Education Association, et al. (Bucceri & Pincus, attorneys).

Gerald L. Dorf argued the cause for appellant Board of Education of the Borough of New Milford (Gerald L. Dorf, attorney; Russell Weiss, Jr., on the briefs).

Reginald F. Hopkinson argued the cause for respondent Board of Education of the Borough of Fair Lawn, etc. (Jeffer, Hartman, Hopkinson, Vogel, Coomber & Peiffer, attorneys).

Louis C. Rosen argued the cause for respondent Board of Education of the Pascack Valley Regional High School District, etc. (Aron & Salsberg, attorneys; Rodney T. Hara, on the brief).


The opinion of the Court was delivered by GARIBALDI, J.

The issue here is whether Spiewak v. Rutherford Board of Educ., 90 N.J. 63 (1982), is to be applied retroactively to Title 1, supplemental and compensatory education teachers (Title 1 teachers), who filed petitions with the Commissioner of Education prior to June 23, 1982, the date of our decision in Spiewak. In Spiewak...

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