Court Opinion

ID: 9713632
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 05:19:06.867874+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:19.688083
License: Public Domain

SAND, Justice,
concurring specially.
I agree with Chief Justice Erickstad’s opinion that NDCC Chapter 15-38.1 applies to school districts employing or having only one certificated teacher. I also concur with Justice Pederson’s special concurring opinion that, under Chapter 15-38.1, an only certificated teacher of a school district need *474not assume another title to negotiate, and a school board has a right, if not a duty, to be fully informed before an assumed title is accepted and “business” is conducted.
In the business world any person using an assumed title is required, as a matter of course, to make a full disclosure or give reasonable justification for using the title before any serious business is undertaken. The same concept applies to negotiations under Chapter 15-38.1.
In my opinion, whenever a teacher employed as the only certificated teacher of a school district assumes another title for purposes of negotiation under Chapter 15-38.1, such teacher must affirmatively disclose the reasons therefor to the school board.