Geneva City School District v. Anonymous

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Ontario County (Frederick G. Reed, A.J.), entered April 23, 2009. The order denied the petition to vacate an arbitration award.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: Petitioner filed 16 disciplinary charges pursuant to Education Law § 3020-a against respondent, a tenured teacher employed by petitioner as a high school librarian. Respondent requested a hearing, and the parties selected, “by mutual agreement,” an arbitrator to serve as the Hearing Officer (§ 3020-a [3] [b] [ii]). At the…