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NJ District Pays $50,000 To Settle Special Ed Teacher's Sex Harassment Suit NJ District Pays $50,000 To Settle Special Ed Teacher's Sex Harassment Suit
NJ District Pays $50,000 To Settle Special Ed Teacher's Sex 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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