Gould

Petitioner is a teacher of music possessed of the necessary qualifications to permit her to teach in the respondent school. The city of Santa Ana is a city of the fifth class, organized under the Municipal Incorporation Act of the state of California. (Stats. 1883, p. 93.) It has an elementary school district with boundaries coextensive with the city limits, and a high school district which embraces all the territory within its boundaries, as well as certain elementary school districts outside the city limits. Each district is a separate legal entity but both are governed by the Board of Education of the City of Santa Ana.

Petitioner was first employed in 1927 by the “Board of Education of Santa Ana School District” as a probationary teacher of “music and art—orchestra in the schools of this elementary school district”. In 1928 a similar • contract was entered into except that it was specified that she was employed by the Santa Ana City School District as a supervisor and the reference to her teaching in the schools of the “elementary school district” was omitted. A similar contract was entered into in 1929. Her contract dated May 7, 1930, was identical with that of the previous…