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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No. 98-C-1225 LINDA TARVER WRIGHT Versus CALDWELL PARISH SCHOOL BOARD ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEAL, SECOND CIRCUIT, PARISH OF CALDWELL VICTORY, J.* We granted a writ filed by the Caldwell Parish School Board (the "Board") to determine whether the Board's failure to notify an assistant principal of non-renewal of her initial employment contract at least 120 days prior to that contract's termination requires the Board to offer her a new contract. After reviewing the record and the applicable law, we reverse the holding of the court of appeal and hold the Board is not required to offer her a new contract based on its failure to give 120 days notice. We remand the case to the court of appeal to consider other errors raised by the plaintiff. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY On June 22, 1995, the Board offered Linda Tarver Wright ("Wright"), a nontenured teacher, a two-year contract as assistant principal at Caldwell Parish High School for the 1995-1996 and 1996-1997 school years. Based on unsatisfactory evaluations of Wright, on June 16, 1997, the Caldwell Parish superintendent of schools sent a letter to each member of the Board recommending that Wright's contract not be renewed. On June 19, 1997, the ten-member Board voted on whether

or not to renew Wright's contract. After the vote resulted in a tie, the Board president declared Wright to be unemployed.
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Traylor, J., not on panel, recused. Rule IV, Part 2,

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