SINKEVICH v. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF RAYNHAM


403 Mass. 420 (1988)

530 N.E.2d 173

JANET B. SINKEVICH vs. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF RAYNHAM.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

November 21, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Emerson, Jr., for the defendant.

Brian R. Corey for the plaintiff.

Michael J. Long, for Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Austin Broadhurst, for Massachusetts Association of School Committees, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

We are concerned here with the question whether a school teacher who submitted her resignation to the superintendent of schools in Raynham and started working in the Fall River school system could effectively withdraw her resignation before the school committee voted to accept it and thus be entitled to return to her tenured position in Raynham. We hold that she may not.

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