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Tenured Teacher Subject to Discipline Is Entitled to a Hearing Pursuant to Education Law 3020-a Notwithstanding an Alternative Procedure in a Collective Bargaining Agreement

The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge Lippman, over a dissent, determined that a tenured teacher subject to discipline is entitled to a hearing pursuant to Education Law 3020-a, notwithstanding the existence of an alternative procedure agreed to in a collective bargaining agreement which was negotiated (or renegotiated) after Section 3020-a went into effect in 1994:

…[I]t is plain that the legislative intent informing its 1994 amendment (L 1994, ch 691) was to assure that tenured educators against whom formal disciplinary charges were lodged could avail themselves, if they so chose, of the procedural protections set forth in contemporaneously amended Education Law § 3020-a. While section 3020 (1) does “grandfather” pre-September 1, 1994 CBA discipline review procedures contained in unaltered CBAs, its evidently dominant purpose was prospectively to secure the right of tenured employees to avail themselves of the process set forth in Education Law § 3020-a. That purpose and the indefinite retention of mandatory alternative CBA review procedures are not easily, if at all, reconcilable. With that in mind, we believe the statute must be understood to sunset CBA provisions depriving tenured employees of the § 3020-a recourse to which they are otherwise entitled. Matter of Kilduff v Rochester City School District, 2014 NY Slip Op 08056, CtApp 11-20-14

 

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