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ARBITRATION AWARD TERMINATING SCHOOL PRINCIPAL FOR ALCOHOL ABUSE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN VACATED, CRITERIA EXPLAINED (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department reversed Supreme Court and reinstated the arbitration award which terminated petitioner’s employment as a school principal for alcohol abuse. The school district had entered a “last chance” agreement with petitioner, which, the Fourth Department held, was not rendered unenforceable by the district’s commencement of the disciplinary proceedings. The court explained the criteria applied to review of arbitration awards:

Education Law § 3020-a (5) permits judicial review of a hearing officer’s decision but expressly provides that “the court’s review shall be limited to grounds set forth in” CPLR 7511. “An arbitration award may not be vacated unless it violates a strong public policy, is irrational, or clearly exceeds a specifically enumerated limitation on the arbitrator’s power” … . Where, as here, the parties are “subject to compulsory arbitration, the award must satisfy an additional layer of judicial scrutiny—it must have evidentiary support and cannot be arbitrary and capricious’ ” … , and “it must be in accord with due process” … . Here, petitioner failed to meet his burden to show that the conduct findings were invalid … . Indeed, the record establishes that those findings were rational, had evidentiary support, and were not arbitrary and capricious, impermissibly based on uncharged conduct, or otherwise improper … . Matter of Bender (Lancaster Cent. Sch. Dist.), 2019 NY Slip Op 06297, Fourth Dept 8-22-19

 

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