Separate filings after two Newark Public Schools teachers accused then-Rafael Hernández School principal Natasha Pared of giving them low ratings and suspending them without pay for a year in retaliation against the Newark Teachers Union. won in court. activity.
Sanyka Montague and Jennifer Ferrara, kindergarten through eighth grade teachers, are both tenured. Each teacher's arbitrator ruled in his or her favor. State Superior Court Judge Lisa Adubato affirmed her ruling and ordered her teachers to be paid their full back pay. Natasha Pared is the principal of troubled Barringer High School, where nine out of 10 students currently cannot read at grade level, their math scores are lower, and the average SAT score is 382 in reading and 365 in math. no see.
According to Advance Media, the district attempted to have an arbitrator deny the teacher's motion early in the lawsuit. Neither the district nor Pared responded to requests for content.
Teachers have long received positive reviews, but over the past two years, Pared explained, they have had poor grades, failed to submit lesson plans and failed to comply with Newark's masking rules. The arbitrators determined the evaluation was “subjective” and “motivated by the principal’s anti-union bias.” New Jersey's teacher tenure law stipulates that only tenured teachers who receive two consecutive years of low ratings can be fired.
Attorneys for the Newark Teachers Union said they will give the district two weeks to comply with the judge's order and will file a complaint if Newark fails to meet the deadline to make teachers “complete.” .