Fort Worth ISD is asking a judge to permanently throw out a lawsuit filed in 2012 by a former Arlington Heights High School administrator accusing the district of whistleblower retaliation, and although a trial was scheduled, it is now delayed.
In August 2010, Joseph Palazzolo, a former assistant principal and campus diversity representative at Arlington Heights, filed a complaint with the Texas Education Agency alleging falsification of attendance records, sexual misconduct, and discrimination at the high school.
Three months later, Palazzolo was fired by the district upon grounds that school officials said were “unrelated to his reports of wrongdoing.” Palazzolo appealed his termination to TEA.
More than a decade later, a lengthy and complicated lawsuit has reached another impasse between the district and Palazzolo — but there may be movement soon.
After a two-year back-and-forth with the district, in 2012, Palazzolo filed a whistleblower lawsuit against Fort Worth ISD alleging that the district fired him in retaliation for his complaints. The district said that it fired him because he himself had created a negative culture at the school.
In 2014, Fort Worth ISD was ordered to reimburse the U.S. Department of Education between $37 million and $39 million after an internal investigation found that, according to the district, a computer program miscalculated student attendance numbers.
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