Alyssa Wright, who oversaw oversaw special education services in the Central Bucks School District, filed a federal lawsuit accusing the district of retaliation against a whistleblower.
Alyssa Wright’s name kept coming up at last month’s hearing on whether Central Bucks School District’s superintendent and Jamison Elementary School’s principal should be terminated for mishandling child abuse allegations.
The duo on the hot seat, Superintendent Steven Yanni and Principal David Heineman, pointed fingers at Wright, who didn’t testify at the hearing.
Now Central Bucks’ former director of pupil services is sharing her side of the story. In a federal lawsuit filed last week in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Central Bucks and eight school board members, Wright says she was a whistleblower who was being scapegoated after raising concerns over the pace and competence of the investigation into suspected abuse of autistic children at Jamison.
The lawsuit is the latest turn in a scandal that has been unfolding in Central Bucks since November when a personal-care assistant submitted a complaint to the district detailing abuse by a special-education teacher and educational assistant.
The complaint alleged that autistic children were “improperly restrained, physically punished, left undressed for extended periods, and prevented from drinking water and communicating using speech devices.”
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