THOMAS A. ATWATER
v.
COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION & another.
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
September 7, 2011.
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.
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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