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City Must Pay $260G To Wrongly Fired Teacher

By DAN ROSENBLUM
Posted 1/4/16

The de Blasio administration has been ordered to pay $260,000 to a Teacher whose 2012 firing was overturned in State Supreme Court. David Suker, who was terminated for a series of disciplinary charges that he said stemmed from his role as an activist in the Occupy Wall Street protests, was awarded three years of back pay.

Though a Supreme Court Justice had tossed out the most-serious charge of lying about his daughter’s residence to enroll her in two prestigious Manhattan schools, an arbitrator’s Dec. 22 ruling fined him $7,000 for breaking several Department of Education rules.

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