LEBANON BOROUGH - The school district has settled a whistleblower lawsuit brought by a former employee for $235,000.

The district reached the settlement, first reported by Transparency NJ , last October in the Superior Court litigation filed by former administrative assistant Leah Driscoll in August 2019.

As part of the settlement, neither the school district nor Driscoll admit any wrongdoing or liability.

Driscoll also agreed not to bring any more litigation against the school district, which has one pre-K-grade 6 school, and not to seek employment with the school district because of "irreconcilable differences." She also agreed not to make any disparaging remarks about the school district.

The lawsuit, which named the school district and Chief School Administrator Bruce Arcurio as defendants, arose from Driscoll's termination in 2019.

The school maintained that she was being terminated for "reasons of economy."

But Driscoll, who said in her lawsuited that she was "blindsided" by the decision, argued that she was fired in retaliation for her whistleblowing conduct in reporting a student's suicidal comments and complaining that the failure to provide the student with counseling was discriminatory because of the student's race.

The district's reason for the dismissal were "bogus and a pretext for unlawful retaliation."

Driscoll also alleged that even after her termination the school district continued to retaliate against her by "targeting" her children. According to the...

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