Case ID: njl_133/html/0015-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bodine, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THOMAS A. FRASER ET AL., PROSECUTORS, v. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF JERSEY CITY IN THE COUNTY OF HUDSON, A CORPORATION, RESPONDENTS.
    Submitted January 16, 1945
    Decided April 30, 1945.
    Before Justices Case, Bobine and Porter.
    For the prosecutors, Eisenberg & Spicer.
    
    For the respondents, Robert H. Doherty.
    
   The op inion of the court was delivered by

Bodine, J.

1. Do teachers in a school system, who have acquired tenure, have a right to the increases provided by an existing- salary schedule when the time for such increases occur? We think not. If the reasoning in Greenway v. Board of Education of Camden, 129 N. J. L. 461, is somewhat extended, as we think it should be, board action is necessary to implement every increase.

2. May the recommendation by the persons named in the schedule be arbitrarily withheld ? We can find nothing in the proofs beyond inaction. There is nothing to indicate that it was arbitrary. To decide otherwise it is admitted would necessitate overruling the reasoning in the Greenway case, supra. This we cannot do.

The judgment of the State Board of Education will be affirmed.