Ex-Employee Hits Oregon School District with $2.5M Retaliation Suit

August 16, 2016

The Eugene School District in Oregon has been hit with a $2.5 million lawsuit by a former administrator alleging he faced retaliation and pressure to resign after complaining of illegal practices within the district.

The suit was filed by Brad New. The Register-Guard reported that most of New’s complaints during his eight years at the district were found to be unsubstantiated by the state. But the state did find it overpaid the district for two school years, because district officials wrongly identified how many of its students were attending school full time.

New also made two complaints to the U.S. Department of Education, including one accusing the district of discriminating against students in an alternative program.

LawsuitSpokeswoman Kerry Delf says district officials haven’t yet been served with the complaint, but they plan to “vigorously defend” against the allegations.

Topics Lawsuits Oregon Education

Was this article valuable?

Here are more articles you may enjoy.

Latest Comments

  • August 17, 2016 at 9:48 am
    Fair Playing Field says:
    The AP feed also contained the following one-sentence second paragraph, "Brad New filed the suit Thursday.", which IJ no doubt deleted in the interest of space. The writing is... read more
  • August 16, 2016 at 2:15 pm
    Perplexed says:
    Funny, Jack. I agree.
  • August 16, 2016 at 2:07 pm
    Jack Kanauph says:
    This story is written worse that the dog shooting story. Is New a name like Prince or Common?

Add a CommentSee All Comments (3)Add a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

More News
More News Features