In re the Claim of Williams

*637Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed June 8, 2004, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because she voluntarily left her employment without good cause.

In February 2002, claimant was hired as a teacher’s aide by a school district to work with special needs students at a high school. Pursuant to New York law, her employment was conditioned upon a satisfactory criminal background check. In April 2003, the district was advised by the Department of Education that claimant’s criminal background check was…