Matter of Levy-Napoli v. City of New York

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Cynthia S. Kern, J.), entered June 30, 2015, which, in this proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 75, denied the petition to vacate a hearing officer’s award to the extent that it terminated petitioner’s employment as a tenured public school teacher, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Although petitioner had eight years of “satisfactory” annual performance reviews, the imposition of the penalty of termination does not shock the court’s sense of fairness, given respondent Department of Education’s assistance and provision of numerous opportunities…