Beranek v. Joint Independent School District No. 287

OPINION

CRIPPEN, Judge.

This appeal requires us to decide if substantial evidence supported the immediate discharge of a teacher in the absence of a prior written record of the teacher’s deficiencies. The hearing examiner issued proposed findings of fact and concluded the evidence was insufficient to support petitioner’s immediate discharge. The school board, however, adopted the school district’s proposed findings of fact and immediately discharged petitioner. We reverse.

FACTS

From September 1973 until his discharge in March 1986, relator David Beranek had been continuously employed by…