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Arab teacher wins round
City education officials discriminated against an Arabic-language school principal when they canned her for making comments to The Post defending students who wore shirts with the words "Intifada NYC," according to a ruling by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.In the decision, released by her supporters yesterday, the EEOC says the Education Department "succumbed to the very bias that creation of the school was intended to dispel." Debbie Almontaser, who headed up the Khalil Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn, told The Post in 2007 that "intifada" on the shirts meant simply "shaking off oppression" and was not an endorsement of the Palestinian uprising against Israel. But the comments led to wide-spread calls for her firing. "The EEOC's finding is without any basis whatsoever," said Paul Marks, Deputy Chief of Labor and Employment at the NYC Law Department. Almontaser is seeking more than $300,000 in compensation for court costs, lost wages and pain and suffering. She also wants to get her job back. The EEOC has asked both parties to negotiate a settlement. Posted by: tipper 2010-03-13 |
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