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Teaneck District Pays $50,000 To Settle Special Ed Teacher's Sexual Harassment Suit Teaneck District Pays $50,000 To Settle Special Ed Teacher's Sexual Harassment Suit
Teaneck District Pays $50,000 To Settle Special Ed Teacher's Sexual Harassment Suit The Teaneck school district confidentially paid $50,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a former special education teacher who said she was fired after refusing the then-principal’s sexual advances, records show. Whittier Elementary School Principal Pedro H. Valdes III – now the principal of Teaneck High School -- engaged in “overly flirtatious” behavior that was “disturbing and intimidating at best," Grace Kenny charged in a sexual discrimination lawsuit. Rather than go to trial, district officials settled the case and agreed, along with Kenny, to keep the terms of the deal confidential. Set…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Fired Teaneck Teacher Accuses Principal Of Hitting On Her, Retaliating When She Refused Fired Teaneck Teacher Accuses Principal Of Hitting On Her, Retaliating When She Refused
Fired Teaneck Teacher Accuses Principal Of Hitting On Her, Retaliating When She Refused A former special education teacher at a Teaneck elementary school claims she was fired after she refused the principal’s sexual advances. The “overly flirtatious” behavior by Whittier Elementary School Principal Pedro H. Valdes III was “disturbing and intimidating at best," Grace Kenny, 38, charges in a sexual discrimination lawsuit filed in Superior Court in Hackensack. Kenny taught Whittier pupils with emotional and learning disabilities for a year and a half before she was let go in May 2018, the suit says. At first, Valdes "lavished praise" on her work and "consistently gave her very h…

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by Jerry DeMarco