McKee

Pursuant to stipulation between counsel for the respective parties these appeals have been presented by a single set of briefs, and are to be treated as if consolidated; the entire records and evidence to be considered by the court as being properly in the record and before the court in each case.

In each of these proceedings the defendants constitute the membership of the Board of Education which governs the school department of the city of Long Beach, which department is in the city charter described as the “Long Beach City School District’’. Each proceeding was brought by a school teacher claiming permanent tenure. The plaintiff in the first proceeding, Mrs. McKee, had served four years as an elementary teacher in the Long Beach School District and immediately thereafter one year as a junior high school teacher in the Long Beach City High School District; the plaintiff in the second proceeding, Mrs. Foreman, two years in the elementary school, and immediately thereafter two years as a teacher in the junior high school. At the end of these respective periods of service each teacher was dismissed by defendant Board of Education; notice of dismissal being given in the manner…