LeGalley v. Bronson Community Schools

Plaintiff appeals as of right from a circuit court judgment reversing an order of the State Tenure Commission. The commission had found that the defendant school board "constructively discharged or demoted” plaintiff without according him the procedural protection afforded by the teachers’ tenure act, MCL 38.71 et seq.; MSA 15.1971 et seq.

Plaintiff, an elementary school principal, was denied salary increases for two successive years. Plaintiff alleged that the denial of the salary increases was part of a concerted effort to force him to resign or to accept a demotion. Plaintiff presented…