The court determined the entire controversy doctrine (ECD) did not preclude the State Operated School District of the City of Newark, Essex County from prosecuting a conduct-unbecoming tenure charge against a third-grade teacher stemming from his infliction of corporal punishment on two students, even though the corporal punishment predated — and the related charge was not joined with — tenure actions instituted against the teacher for inefficiency. The limited scope of the inefficiency arbitrations, considering the legislatively-mandated procedures specific to those arbitrations under the TEACHNJ Act, is not conducive to the inclusion of other charges, including conduct unbecoming. Further, there was little or no transactional nexus between the inefficiency and conduct-unbecoming charges to warrant application of the ECD.