San Diego Federation of Teachers v. Board of Education

This is a proceeding in mandamus to compel the Board of Education of the City of San Diego to increase the amount of salary payable to a group of teachers included within a previously designated salary classification • was instituted on behalf of the teachers in question; and resulted in a judgment in favor of the board, from which the petitioners have taken the appeal at hand.

For salary purposes the board has classified its certificated teachers according to their academic training and creditable experience; has placed them in one of five classes; has identified each of these classes by one of the letters “A” through “E”; in its annual salary schedules has provided a salary range for each class; also has provided different salary steps within the salary range dependent upon years of creditable experience ; and has identified each step by number, commencing with the numeral “1.” In the salary schedule adopted for the school year 1960-1961, classification “E” included teachers having a doctor’s degree or equivalent training, which was deemed to be 72 units of upper division or graduate work after a bachelor’s degree, including a master’s degree; carried an annual salary range of…