She signed three temporary contracts - now she's permanent with backpay on the way
An appellate court has ordered school district to reinstate a teacher it kept on temporary contracts for three consecutive years without authority to do so.
The Fourth District Court of Appeal published the decision on October 2, 2026, finding the Alta Loma School District wrongly classified the teacher as temporary from the day she started at Stork Elementary in August 2019.
She was hired to teach first grade after a last-minute enrollment increase. The principal confirmed she was brought on for an additional class, not to cover anyone's absence. But the contract waiting for her said "temporary."
The human resources director told her it was "just part of the process." Probationary status, she was assured, would come the following year.
It never did.
Each year brought the same story: temporary contracts across the board, "no exceptions," apologies from the principal, and promises that reclassification was just around the corner. When COVID-19 hit, pandemic uncertainty became the new reason. A human resources secretary told the teacher during her third year that "this never happens" and that she had "quite a few temporary teachers going on their third year."
Then in March 2022, the district cut all temporary teachers loose, citing lost pandemic funding and low enrollment.
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