PHILLIPS v. SOUTH RANGE LOCAL SCHOOL DIST. BD. OF EDN.

No. 88-899.

45 Ohio St. 3d 66 (1989)

PHILLIPS, APPELLANT, v. SOUTH RANGE LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION, APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided August 23, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Green, Haines, Sgambati, Murphy & Macala Co., L.P.A., Dennis Haines and Barry Laine, for appellant.

Henderson, Covington, Stein, Donchess & Messenger and James L. Messenger, for appellee.

Means, Bichimer, Burkholder & Baker Co., L.P.A., Robert T. Baker and Kimball H. Carey, urging affirmance for amicus curiae Ohio School Boards Association.


ALICE ROBIE RESNICK, J.

The Ohio Teachers' Tenure Act of 1941 (H.B. No. 121, 119 Ohio Laws 121) was enacted to provide teachers with employment stability. "`The very laudable purpose for this act was to insure to the teachers some measure of security in their important work and to free them, at least to a measurable extent from the "vicissitudes of politics" or the likes or dislikes of those charged with the administration of school affairs.'" State, ex rel. Bishop...

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