And as school districts renovate and come across issues, they are “stuck holding the bag with a million-dollar price tag because their predecessors were sold a floor with toxic metals,” she said.

In April 2012, Portelos was removed from Dreyfus Intermediate School (I.S. 49) and reassigned to a building in Far Rockaway, Queens, where he worked in a storage room -- a "rubber room" -- in a ...

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NEW YORK The coach in this case is going to federal court. "They wanted to have some type of retaliation against me, and they did," Daniel Smith said. That retaliation, Smith claims, was to assign ...

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The term rubber room is an allusion to now-infamous "reassignment centers" where New York City officials transferred public school teachers and administrators who some considered burned out or ...

The term rubber room is an allusion to now-infamous "reassignment centers" where New York City officials transferred public school teachers and administrators who some considered burned out or ...

His is the second “rubber room” case filed against the district since last August when the school board approved a $200,000 settlement for educator Noreen Sweeney in her lawsuit involving the ...

Portnoy, who is appealing his firing from Middle School 142, began each day by getting a few hours’ sleep in a beach chair while mice scurried past him on the concrete floor, he said.