Denver Public School administrators and the teachers union struck an accord this week in a lawsuit filed by five former North High School employees transferred in 2003 after accusing the principal of misusing money.
Details of the settlement will be disclosed after the school board votes on it, district spokesman Mark Ste vens said Wednesday.
Denver Classroom Teachers Association president Kim Ursetta said the union was “very pleased with the outcome.”
The five employees sued then-principal Offie Hobbs and former Superintendent Jerry Wartgow in 2003 after they received word they were being transferred to other DPS positions.
The four teachers, Michael Sedillos, Bea Shepard, Roxanne Rhodes and Jennifer Werner, and secretary Cecelia Walters alleged that their First Amendment rights were violated.
They said they were transferred as retaliation after they accused Hobbs of mistreating students and improperly spending public money.
The five have jobs at other Denver schools, as does Hobbs, who is a teacher at Thomas Jefferson High, according to DPS records.
The seven-member DPS board will likely vote on the settlement at its next meeting Jan. 19, Stevens said.
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