Court looks at terms of employment contract in case involving reduction of salary
The terms of the employment contract between the Caddo Mills Independent School District and one of its employees allowed it to reassign him to another role, as supported by substantial evidence, the Texas Court of Appeals recently said.
During the 2017-18 school year, the school district hired the petitioner under a term contract and assigned him as its athletic director. Before the end of that school year, in February 2018, the district offered to renew his contract. He accepted. They executed a new contract for the school years 2018-19 and 2019-20.
The district assigned the petitioner to the same role for 2018-19. In January 2019, the superintendent notified him that his assignment was changed to a teacher at the district’s Disciplinary Alternative Education Center (DAEC). His salary would remain at its previous amount of $93,966 for the rest of 2018-19 but would be commensurate with his assignment as a DAEC teacher for 2019-20.
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The petitioner challenged the reassignment through the district’s three-level grievance procedure. The superintendent and the district’s board of trustees ruled against him. At the third level, the commissioner of education dismissed his appeal. The commissioner found no violation by the district of either the state’s school laws or of any provision of the employment contract.
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