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ATWATER v. COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION

SJC-10817.

460 Mass. 844 (2011)

THOMAS A. ATWATER v. COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

November 21, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Garrick F. Cole ( Gerard A. Butler, Jr. , with him) for the plaintiff.

Amy Spector , Assistant Attorney General, for Commissioner of Education.

Geoffrey R. Bok ( Colby C. Brunt with him) for Manchester Essex Regional School District.

Matthew D. Jones , for Massachusetts Teachers Association, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Michael J. Long , Joshua R. Coleman , & Stephen J. Finnegan , for Massachusetts Association of School Committees, Inc., & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: IRELAND, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, GANTS, DUFFLY, & LENK, JJ.

IRELAND, C.J.

The plaintiff, Thomas A. Atwater, a teacher with professional teacher status,2 was dismissed by the superintendent of the Manchester Essex Regional School District (district) for multiple instances of conduct unbecoming a teacher. Atwater sought review of the dismissal by filing with the Commissioner of Education (commissioner) a petition for arbitration pursuant to G. L. c. 71, § 42, fourth par., as appearing in St...

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