The policy consequences of Garcetti v. Ceballos for personnel management in public schools

Arthur Goldberg, former United States Secretary of Labor and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, once said, the concept of management rights is simply “a recognition of the fact that somebody must be the boss. . . . People can't be wandering around at loose ends, each deciding what to do next. Management decides what the employee is to do” (Dale, 2008, p. 213). Goldberg’s statement offers a suitable segue into the heart of this study about public employment and the constitutional rights to free speech as guaranteed by the First Amendment. The setting is public elementary and secondary schools of education (k-12), and the target audience is executive school administrators who serve as managers responsible for the development, supervision, evaluation, and discipline of other district staff. The purpose is to provide technical guidance to school administrators relative to the current laws, regulations, and legal considerations of the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause in k-12 public schools pursuant to the 2006 United States (U.S.) Supreme Court decision in Gil Garcetti, et al. v. Richard Ceballos.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ed.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Ed Organization and Leadership

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2017

Author dc:creator

• Frohning Kinley, Dana Kay

Contributors dc:contributor

• Alexander, Kern
• Dunbar, Christopher
• Parsons, Marilyn
• Phillips, William
• Sloat, Linda

• Pursuant to duty
• Matters of public concern

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2017 Dana Kay Frohning Kinley

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/97302

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/97302