A Walnut Park elementary school teacher who said she was fired after reporting suspected abuse by her principal has quietly settled her whistleblower lawsuit against a local charter school operator, according to court filings.
The case, brought in Los Angeles Superior Court, accused the campus and its operator of whistleblower retaliation and wrongful termination. Attorneys told the court in mid-May that the parties had reached an accord and asked a judge to dismiss the case.
Brandy Noble, hired as an English language arts intervention teacher at Academia Moderna in September 2023, claimed in her lawsuit that she was punished after she reported what she saw on campus. Her attorneys filed papers notifying Judge William Fahey of an accord on May 13, 2026, and later asked that the case be dismissed, according to MyNewsLA. The complaint names both the campus and Alta Public Schools as defendants.
According to the complaint, Noble was assigned to restroom monitoring duty in October 2024 when she recorded an incident in which the principal allegedly "picked up a student, pushed the child into a dark room and pinned the pupil to the floor."
"Ms. Noble believed that the instruction received from her superiors to remain silent concerning her observation of (the principal) was unlawful," the filing states.
The suit further alleges she reported the episode to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and County Child Protective Services in November 2024. After that, school leaders...
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