After more than three months of waiting, the state has ruled to dismiss a Garden City USD 457 complaint requesting one-year suspensions of the licenses of three former district teachers who were in breach of contract for leaving the district in the summer, past contractual deadlines, before a suitable replacement was secured. At a hearing on Nov. 30, the Kansas State Board of Education Professional Practices Commission (PPC) dismissed all three cases in 5-0 votes on the basis of a Kansas Administrative Regulation that states breach of contract cases will be dismissed if the contract includes a liquidated damages policy, or a means of financial settlement to relieve the signer from contractual commitment...
