Allred v. Arkansas Department of Correction School District

Tom Glaze, Justice.

Appellant Jim Allred had been hired by the appellee Department of Correction School District as a certified teacher for the 1993-1994 school year. In a letter dated April 1,1994, the district’s supervisor of education services, Hurshell Qualls, informed Allred that Qualls intended to recommend to the Board that Allred be placed on “a year’s (sic) leave or longer without pay beginning next school year.” Qualls referred to Allred’s excessive absenteeism and his failure to provide a doctor’s statement regarding his illness. Allred received Qualls’s letter on April 6. On April…