Former Point Lay school principal R. Brett Stirling was fired in 2022 for incompetence but challenged that decision.

Neither an Alaska free-speech law nor the First Amendment protect a former North Slope Borough principal fired for making a derogatory version of the local school district’s logo, the Alaska ...

We thus hold that Stirling’s termination did not violate his free speech rights.” Alaska law contains a free-speech rule for teachers that is separate from the First Amendment, but in Friday’s ruling, ...