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DALLAP v. SHARON CITY SCHOOL DIST.

524 Pa. 260 (1990)

571 A.2d 368

Jan DALLAP, Sharon Cunningham, Betty Yohman, Les Cattron, Tom Ristvey, Sally Fabian, Michelle Grunenwald, Ruth Lavin, Shirley Antos, Sheila Schneider, Ann Dunsmore, Chris Carney, Bonnie Flower, Barbara Pisarcik, Dennis Shaw, individual tenured teachers, Appellants, v. SHARON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided March 12, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel R. Delaney, Laubach, Fulton, Jeselnik, & Delaney, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellants.

Mark P. Widoff, Harrisburg, amicus curiae, for Pennsylvania State Educ. Ass'n.

William G. McConnell, Cusick, Madden, Joyce and McKay, Sharon, for appellee.

Stephen S. Russell, Chief Staff Counsel, New Cumberland, amicus curiae, for Pennsylvania School Boards Ass'n.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.

OPINION

ZAPPALA, Justice.

The appellants in this case are teachers suspended by the Sharon City School District, effective at the close of the 1981-82 school year, due to declining enrollment.1 The question is whether the School Board committed an error of law in suspending these teachers while retaining another, or others, with less seniority. For the reasons that follow, we reverse the order of the Commonwealth Court and remand...

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