The city will not appeal a decision to dismiss cheating charges again𒊎st former Dewey HS Principal Kathleen Elvin, and will keep her on as a six-figure administrator, off🀅icials told The Post.
An internal probe had found that Elvin and her assistant principals at the Gravesend, Brooklyn, high school ran a grade-fixing schemeꦑ called “Project Graduation.” Hundreds of 🍬students — who dubbed it “Easy Pass” — got credits 🎃for sham classes with no instruction.
But Jay Nadelbach, a hearing officer assigned to conduct Elvin’s administrative trial, last month dismissed misconduct charges after the Department of Education failed to turn over records rev♋ealing it later approved all the credits. 🌼Nadelbach ordered Elvin, ousted in July 2015, “reinstated” and awarded back pay.
The city had 10 days to appe🌠a𒊎l the dismissal in court. “We did not appeal,” a city Law Department spokesman said.
Instead, Elvin “will be assigned to a p♔osition as a DOE administrator in a central office,” officials said. Her salary: $157,040.
“Ms. Elvin will not b♏e placed 💎in a school,” said DOE spokeswoman Devora Kaye.
Officials would not explain why they didn’t fight to uphold the charges against Elvin, but a court appeal would 🐻have cast light on a major cheating scandal at a time when Mayor de ✃Blasio is seeking extension of mayoral control of schools.
Dewey teachers who exposed the fraud aren’🎃t surprised at Elvin’s victory.
‘It completely substantiates the lack of sincerity in their ostensible effort to terminate her.’
- retired teacher Wade Goria
“It completely substantiates the lack of sincerity in their ostensible effort to terminate𒆙 her,” said retired social-studies teacher Wade Goria. “They never had any intention t🍒o fire her in the first place.”
The DOE probe foꦕund Elvin led a scheme in which students lacking credits in all subjects were listed on class rosters and given “packets” of work but got no instruction by certified teachers, as required by state law.
Whistleblowers believe Elvin planned to contend at trial that her actions were sanctioned by hi🔯gher-ups, including🌊 Chancellor Carmen Fariña.
“Elvin would spill the beans on a system-wi🍸de policy,🐻” another Dewey teacher said.
When the charges were toss🏅ed, Elvin said she was a victim of “character assassination” and the case was based on “misrepresentations, half-truths and misinformation.”