What is the test for determining whether a teacher can afford to attend a disciplinary hearing?

In connection with the risk of erroneous results, we also must consider the "probable value, if any, of additional or substitute procedural safeguards" and the "fiscal and administrative burdens that the additional or substitute procedural requirement would entail." (Mathews v. Eldridge, supra, 424 U.S. at p. 335, 96 S.Ct. 893.) The statute contains no procedures for assessing whether the teacher's position has potential merit or whether the costs of the hearing exceed the teacher's ability to pay. We may not assume on this facial challenge that teachers who are

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