BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Has a culture of retaliation against those who speak out taken root in Baltimore City Schools? One local attorney says, yes. But there’s a relatively new law in Maryland that protects public school whistleblowers. The problem is, educators may not know about it.
In July 2018, attorney Corlie McCormick Jr. filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Baltimore City Schools on behalf of former principal Angel Lewis. The suit was made possible by a new law that had taken effect just months earlier.
“The claims were disturbing that I saw from Ms. Lewis,” McCormick told Project Baltimore.
On October 1, 2017, the Public School Employee Whistleblower Protection Act took effect in Maryland. The law protects public school employees from retaliation if they blow the whistle on misconduct such as waste, fraud or abuse. But McCormick said that when Lewis reported issues at her school, Claremont Middle/High in east Baltimore, she was fired.
“Instead of trying to correct the issues Ms. Lewis raised, the school board began retaliating against her, which is unfortunate,” McCormick said.
Concerning Lewis’s lawsuit, North Avenue gave Project Baltimore this statement:
City Schools made a determination not to renew the employment of Angel Lewis. Ms. Lewis disagreed and filed litigation against City Schools. It is important to understand that the allegations in any legal complaint are tested through an extensive process to determine whether they can be proved true.
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