ADVERSE EMPLOYMENT ACTIONS AND PUBLIC SCHOOL ...

Data Synthesis
The purpose of this research study was to identify issues, trends, and guiding principles in
litigation pursued over adverse employment actions against school administrators. The following
tables will truncate essential information, categorize similar cases, and reveal data that are
beneficial to the practicing school administrator.
During the course of the research, four distinct sections of data emerged. The first section
consists of counts of actions and effects brought about from the litigation and other identifying
information. Tables 1-16 are representations of this data gathered during the case briefing
process and classified as “Identifying Information.” The second section reflects one of the
essential veins of data that revealed itself during the data reduction process. This section, Tables
17-29, is codified as “School Actions,” because it includes items such as reduction in force,
which are actions initiated by school systems that school administrators have consistently
pointed to as one of the issues of contention regarding their adverse employment action. The
third section of data, Tables 30-46, surrounds actions that school systems identify as being issues
that have negatively impacted the employee to the point that employment action was warranted.
This section is marked as “Employee Actions.” Finally, the fourth section of data (Tables 47-66)
identifies remedies or protections that school administrators consistently cite as protection
against adverse employment actions. This final section is classified as “Employee Protections.”
Identifying Information
Case Data
Tables 1-16 will display the primary identification data collected by the researcher during
the case briefing process. These data were sorted and arranged and accompanied by a basic
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