DALLAS — A former internal auditor and investigator at Dallas Independent School District is suing the district, claiming she was fired for blowing the whistle on corruption. The majority of Andrea Whelan’s allegations center on alleged grade changing and attendance fraud at one DISD high school.
Now, a new allegation included in her whistleblower lawsuit she filed one week ago alleges a student with a history of violence assaulted a teacher who died just days later. Following the incident in January 2021, the district allegedly transfered the student to another DISD school, where he attended classes at least until this past May.
Andrea Whelan was fired after a brief hearing one month ago.
The district says it terminated her for poor performance and for violating privacy rules. But she claims her performance reviews were all good until she authored two investigative reports about widespread grade and attendance fraud at Samuel High School.
According to the lawsuit filed in Civil District Court in Dallas County, her bosses rewrote her reports, “omitting all the information and evidence of the falsification of student grades and attendance.”
Also omitted, according to the suit, was Whelan’s claim she uncovered “the transfer of a Grady Spruce High School special education student," following his January 2021 assault against a teaching assistant who “passed away at the hospital several days following the incident.”
According to the lawsuit, this “was one of a series of...
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