Hull, MASSACHUSETTS

Underming local control of schools.
Even when you aren't tenured, you can't be fired.

August 28, 2007 - First an arbitrator then a superior court judge have ruled that Alice Haseltine should not have lost her job because she didn’t receive a thorough enough review by school administrators before she was notified that she would not be brought back for the school year beginning September 2003.

She wasn't tenured, but "town’s contract with the Hull Teachers Association said teachers were supposed to be formally observed by a superior three times, and be given the results of those observations and a chance to respond."

The court ruling does not state the reason Hull school administrators gave for firing Haseltine. The Hull Teachers Association brought the lawsuit.