Compton College Federation of Teachers, AFT Local No. 3486 v. Compton Community College District

Compton College Federation of Teachers, AFT Local No. 3486, AFL-CIO (hereafter referred to as CFT) and seven certified employees appeal from an order of the court denying their petition for mandamus to compel the Compton Community College District (hereinafter referred to as the District) and Board of Trustees of the Compton Community College District (hereinafter referred to as the Board) to reinstate them as teachers for the 1978-1979 school year.

Facts

The District on March 14, 1978, notified the seven individual appellants who are certificated employees that their services would not be required for the 1978-1979 school year and that they would be laid off pursuant to Education Code sections 87740 and 87743 1 because of a decline in average daily attendance in all schools in the District in the 1977-1978 school year below that in the 1975-1976 school year. Pursuant to request appellants obtained a hearing at which respondents presented evidence of a 15.8 percent decline in average daily attendance in all schools in the District for the first six months in which school was in session (comparing July 1 to December 31, 1977, and July 1 to December 1, 1975) and that on…