Title: Ex Parte Alabama State Tenure Com'n
Citation: 430 So. 2d 880
Docket Number: N/A
State: Alabama
Issuer: Alabama Supreme Court
Date: February 11, 1983

430 So. 2d 880 (1983)
Ex parte ALABAMA STATE TENURE COMMISSION.
(Re: Florine L. SMITH v. ALABAMA STATE TENURE COMMISSION, et al.).
81-968.

Supreme Court of Alabama.
February 11, 1983.
*881 Milton C. Davis, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for petitioner.
J. Victor Price, Jr., Montgomery, for respondents.
SHORES, Justice.
We granted the petition because it was asserted that the decision of the Court of Civil Appeals, 430 So. 2d 877, was in conflict with Smith v. Birmingham Board of Education, 403 So. 2d 226 (Ala.1981).
By letter of May 26, 1981, the Macon County Board of Education notified Florine Smith that she would be transferred from her position as attendance supervisor in the central office to a teaching position in the vocational education program. Smith notified the Board of her intent to contest the transfer and requested a public hearing, pursuant to Ala.Code 1975, § 16-24-6. On June 12, 1981, the Board informed Smith of the time and place of the hearing and of the reasons for the proposed transfer. After the hearing on June 22, 1981, the Board voted to approve the transfer.
Smith appealed the Board's decision to the Alabama State Tenure Commission. On August 29, 1981, the Commission determined that it lacked jurisdiction, stating in part:
Smith petitioned the Circuit Court of Macon County for a writ of mandamus directing the Commission to accept jurisdiction over her appeal. On January 27, 1982, the circuit court denied the writ. Smith then appealed to the Court of Civil Appeals, which reversed the circuit court, finding:
The Commission filed an application for rehearing, contending that the decision of the Court of Civil Appeals was in conflict with this Court's prior decision in Smith v. Birmingham Board of Education, supra. The Court of Civil Appeals overruled the Commission's application and extended its original opinion, stating:
From this extended opinion, the Commission was granted a writ of certiorari by this Court on October 19, 1982.
We affirm the decision of the Court of Civil Appeals and agree that Smith v. Birmingham Board of Education, supra, is distinguishable in that it did not involve the construction of § 16-24-7, Code 1975, which is the crux of the present case. We also agree with the Court of Civil Appeals that §§ 16-24-5, -6, and -7 provide for a public hearing to any "teacher" as defined in § 16-24-1 who has attained tenure under § 16-24-2(a), and that § 16-24-2(b) provides that promotion to principal or supervisor does not jeopardize the tenure of a teacher nor his or her right to a hearing before the employing board when given notice of a transfer or demotion. Section 16-24-5 provides that a transfer shall be without loss of status. Thus, the issue of whether a teacher had attained tenure as a teacher or supervisor is included in the matters to be heard by the employing board under § 16-24-5. To the extent that the opinion in Smith v. Birmingham Board of Education, supra, holds otherwise, it is hereby modified.
AFFIRMED.
TORBERT, C.J., and FAULKNER, JONES, ALMON, EMBRY, BEATTY and ADAMS, JJ., concur.