Beseman

The Marin Junior College maintains one school campus at Kentfield and up until the middle of July 1955 had conducted the school program at nearby San Quentin State Prison. The six respondents were all certificated junior college teachers, confining their teaching activities entirely to the San Quentin school program under contracts of employment with the Marin Junior College District. Each of them had taught consecutively for five years or more at San Quentin for the school district and each had been reelected to teach for the district after completion of three consecutive years, with the possible exception of respondent O’Boyle. None of them had ever resigned or been dismissed for cause, and each was notified by letter dated April 28, 1955, of his dismissal effective June 30, 1955. The average daily attendance of the school district at all times with which we are concerned exceeded 850. At no time before the letter of dismissal had appellants made any attempt to determine respondents’ ability to perform other teaching services for the junior college which were being rendered by probationary teachers or teachers junior to any of them in point of service. The appellant junior…